MEXICO: A Senior Vice President of Knowledge at Google has broken Felix Baumgartner’s record for the highest parachute jump in history.
Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and base jumper, had set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39km. One of Google’s most senior executives, 57-year-old Alan Eustace, was lifted by a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium, from an airport in New Mexico.
Eustace fell faster than the speed of sound and broke the world altitude record set just two years ago by jumping from 135,000 feet and returned to earth just 15 minutes after starting his fall. Eustace broke several records, including national record for highest exit altitude; world and national record for free fall under a drogue chute; national record for vertical speed.
