AlQa'dah 28, 1433, Oct 14, 2012, SPA -- Austrian stunt daredevil Felix Baumgartner on Sunday survived his record-high parachute jump from approximately 39 kilometres over the surface of earth and landed safely just east of his launch site in New Mexico. Baumgartner ascended to the altitude in a large helium balloon in a flight that took more than two hours. When the 43-year-old skydiver reached 36 kilometres, he stepped out of his capsule and jumped, going into a free fall. Thirty seconds into that descent he became the first human to break the sound barrier outside of an aircraft. The unprecedented supersonic jump had been aborted Tuesday and again on Thursday as winds at the launch site made an attempt too dangerous. The Austrian adventurer broke three records: he became the first human to reach supersonic speeds outside an aircraft, he broke a more than 50-year-old world record for the highest-ever parachute jump and broke a record for the highest manned balloon flight.
