Google Vice President surpassed Baumgarter, jumping with a parachute from a height of 41 km

The top manager of Google, 57-year-old Alan Eustace (Alan Eustace) on Friday broke the Austrian Felix Baumgarter's world record for parachute jumps from the stratosphere: he rose to a height of more than 41 km.

According to Eustas, he made a jump from the stratosphere in 2011, for three years they went to preparation.

The record was set in New Mexico. Google Vice President of Development rose to a height of 41.4 thousand meters in a special capsule attached to the balloon filled with helium. Having reached the stratosphere in two hours, Yustas spent several minutes there, after which he made a jump, accelerating in the way to the surface to a speed of 1287 km per hour, TASS reports. The parachute with special technology against confusion was opened at an altitude of 5.5 km. In total, the descent took 15 minutes. The Vice President of Google landed 100 kilometers from the startup of the balloon.

“It was amazing. It was beautiful,” said Eustace The New York Times . “You can see the darkness of space space and layers of the atmosphere that have never seen before.” Yustas noted that while overcoming the speed of sound "he did not hear and did not feel anything."

The previous world record was set by Felix Baumgart, which on October 14, 2012 rose in a special capsule to a height of 39.45 thousand meters and spent 4 minutes 20 seconds in a free drop, overcoming the speed of sound. Prior to this, the world record belonged to the former military pilot Joe Kittinger, who jumped in 1960 with a parachute from a height of 31.3 thousand meters.