Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner Watch will 'jump' from a height of 36,576 feet!
The ambassador of Zenith - Felix Baumgartner in the summer of 2012 is planning to make the jump from a height of 36,576 feet, at first break the sound barrier without a special aircraft, thus placing the altitude record for manned balloon, altitude record, and the duration of free fall. It should be noted that while an athlete's body in free fall will drive up to 1,125 kilometers or more per hour.
A special capsule will protect the body of Felix during lifting, developed by a team of Red Bull Stratos, the members of which - a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger, in due time reached the height of 31,333 feet, and holding three of the four records, which Felix Baumgartner is going to beat.
The ambassador of Zenith - Felix Baumgartner in the summer of 2012 is planning to make the jump from a height of 36,576 feet
The athlete will be sealed inside a sphere of diameter 1.8 meters, hosting control panels. The capsule is pressurized, which reduces the risk of decompression and allows the athlete to be without a suit during the ascent.
The capsule has been tested by design engineers in the fall of at least 150 times in order to accurately develop way shock absorbers that allow the capsule to preserve safe and sound recorders and control devices during the landing.
As to the protection of the athlete, for the protection of Felix experts has developed a unique parachute system equipped with a measuring device designed to automatically open a braking parachute, if a falling body will experience an overload magnitude 3,5 G longer than 6 seconds. Expand the parachute can also manually by pressing a special button on the glove.
Felix Baumgartner with Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner watch
In the athlete during the flight will be put on a special air-tight suit. The outer shell is made of flame-retardant suit material with high thermal insulation properties. The cavity of the suit is filled with gas, which creates an acceptable pressure for the human body. A pressurized helmet will supply Felix Baumgartner with pure oxygen from different sources.
At an altitude of 19,200 meters the athlete crosses the so-called "Armstrong's Line" - is bound, above which the air is thin enough that without a suit liquid or no sealed fluid capsule in the body blood begin to move in a gaseous state - to boil, in other words.
The ambassador of Zenith - Felix Baumgartner in the summer of 2012 is planning to make the jump from a height of 36,576 feet
In preparation for the momentous event, March 15, 2012, Felix jumped from a balloon, which rose to a height of 21,828 feet, thus becoming the third man in history who managed to land successfully after a free fall from a great height. During a test dive, Felix crossed the mark of the stratosphere with a temperature of minus 680S.
The preparatory process is still going on: the second and last test before the expected jump take place between July and September 2012.
Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner Watch will “jump" from a height of 36,576 feet!
Of course, such a detailed account of the Felix’s jump is not accidental, because the athlete will be with Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner watch on his wrist, one would imagine the complexity of the picks of the event. So, if the jump is successfully completed, the Zenith watch will be the first wristwatch, which will overcome the sound barrier in a space round the cosmic.
Original Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner watch is presented on the basis of automatic El Primero 4057B caliber with automatic winding. The watch case is made of steel, diameter - 45.5 mm.
Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner watch backside
The watch is equipped with Flyback function and display tenths of seconds. The backside of the case is decorated with a logo and motto of the project Stratos and Felix” Learn to love what you have been taught to fear”.
Well, the team of Pam65 website wishes Felix and all participants in a daring project of luck and soft landings, and has expressed the hope that the Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th Tribute to Felix Baumgartner watch will continue to pop and selling model, with its own unique history.
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Written by Anno Domini Bastet *
