France, 64-year-old retired Army Colonel Michael Fu Niye (Michel Fournier) 25æ—¥from Canada in northern Saskatchewan plains, try what he called the "great leap." This is a very dangerous high-altitude parachuting, any part of any error would lead to a human tragedy. First of all, Funi Ye will enter a shape such as jellyfish, a diameter of about 650 feet of helium-cabin pressure, off the northern Saskatchewan. If all goes well, he will experience two hours after the flight arrived at an altitude of 130,000 feet, where he will see no marginal dark space and the presentation of the song twists and turns of the Earth. Later, he will be wearing specially made spacesuits and the help of a parachute jump out of extravehicular and landed about 15 minutes, the way experience weightlessness feeling.
If the challenge successfully, Funi Ye will be the first to become the world's fastest supersonic speed of free fall. He also founded another three world records, which are the highest air jump, long jump and the most by the highest balloon flight record. Fu Niye on the 23rd from the battlefield of the North Saskatchewan (North Battleford) sent to the e-mail said: "This is not a world record of the problem. Importantly, this jump will bring the results of the conquest of space Security, but today all the scientists asked the main question is, a person crossing the sound barrier, can survive »"
Over the past two weeks, Fu Niye team of 40 people in Saskatoon, 90 miles northwest of the launch site collection, the French authorities for security reasons refuse to grant permission after missing the air, they chose this remote plains of Canada. Funi Ye will face the challenges and dangers. More than 40,000 feet in height, the thin air, there's not enough oxygen. He could face the lethal embolism (blood vessel formation in the embolic obstacles or occlusion). According to the Paris university students of Science, Professor Fu Niye team members Henri Marotte), at the height of 12 miles, if Funi Ye protection system failure, his blood may have started because of air pressure boiling .
Ma Luote said: "If the human body exposed to very high high, in five seconds, loss of consciousness very quickly. 3-4 minutes, the brain injury was." Funi Ye pressure on the small pod will be sealed and Pressure, equipped
Inflatable balloons with oxygen. He will climb in the process of communication with the ground staff, the entire process by the global positioning system tracking. By then, Funi Ye will be wearing pressurized suits, wear helmets sealed supplementary oxygen. Ma Luote said: "Another problem is diving decompression sickness. He will undergo divers from the submarine surfaced rapidly, due to pressure plunged, the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood vessels caused the problem." To avoid this underwater divers said A "high-altitude disease" (bend) the situation, Fu Niye will be launched before the inhalation of pure oxygen 2-3 hours.
Ma Luote that Funi Ye will be free flying about the whereabouts of eight minutes. He will be in the first 40 seconds more than the speed of sound, and ultimately achieving 1,000 miles per hour. As more and more wind resistance, at a lower altitude whereabouts slow down. A parachute will open at 5,000 feet. Pressure on the pod will be released from the balloon and equipped with three parachute to safety landing. Funi Ye will break the four high-altitude parachuting from the world record: the free fall record high, the height of human balloon flight record, the longest free fall record, the fastest free fall record. The world air sports organizations - the International Federation of Air authorized such a high-altitude parachute.
Fu Niye tried twice before high-altitude supersonic challenges, but due to technical and weather-related problems, leading to parachute failure had not left the ground. The most recent attempt was carried out in 2003, when he took off in the balloon before the split, the efforts to have been in vain. Fu Niye for this jump of more than 10 minutes, psychological and physical preparation for many years, the number of missing to 8,000 times, including one from an altitude of 39,000 feet off, and created a French high-altitude parachuting record, it is also his highest to date The jump. By contrast, the standard height generally in the high jump 12,000 feet to 13,000 feet.
He said in an e-mail: "I will certainly very excited and my dream is about to become a reality. This is my 20 efforts and sacrifices of the results, today, I am going to see all my efforts to return." Holofernes Ye first in September 1988 put forward this plan, then the French Space Agency selected him in free fall flight, jumped from near-space. The main task for testing astronauts in emergency situations, in the absence of spacecraft help of the possibility of escape. Just two years ago, NASA's "Challenger" space plane crash, resulting in killing all seven astronauts.
Funi Ye was a paratrooper in the French army, among dozens of candidates will emerge and successfully passed the physical and psychological tests, was selected the implementation of this task. However, the high-altitude escape testing has never been realized, in Fu Niye be selected to participate in the mission four months later, the project will be abortion. However, he was determined not to give up their dreams, in 1992 retired from the army, seeking to complete this feat alone. In order to raise training and equipment costs, he sold the house and most of the family property, coupled with private donations, so far he has spent nearly 20 million U.S. dollars.
Put into practice the very small
Over the past 20 years, and seriously look at the real high-altitude parachute and put into practice the very few people. 45-year-old movie stunt performers, the former British special forces member Steve (Steve Truglia) said that he plans to July over the United States to conduct a high-altitude parachute. recently in a telephone interview, said: "My plan is to break this record.'s All he has done, I will go beyond." In addition, the Inflatable balloons United Kingdom is a one-time closure of underwater gas diving time The longest record holder (depth of 249 feet).
Zongshen jumped from near-space, Inflatable balloons and may reach supersonic speed, one of more profound significance. He said: "I think I completed this feat, there will be no more than that of the more thrilling performances. I can not imagine what will be more stimulating than this, unless it is only by virtue of trying to re-enter your body Earth's atmosphere. In my view, to achieve this step, there is still a long way. "
Prior to this record by the U.S. Air Force Inflatable balloons test flight pilot Qiaoqitingge (Joe Kittinger) 1960 generated, Kittinger was from 102,800 feet altitude Zongshen jumped in a parachute from 18,000 feet high ground to open before the Kittinger Speed of the whereabouts of more than 600 miles per hour. This process used less than 14 minutes. Last week, the 79-year-old Kittinger at Orlando, Florida, outside the home by reporters in a telephone interview, Kittinger said that he has his own record can be maintained for so long was surprised. Funi Ye and Kittinger usually by e-mail contact.