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Drops From an Airship 24,400 Feet Up; Landing Safely With His Parachute. New York Times. (24 Mar 1921): 1. "Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill., March 23.—A new world's record for parachute jumping was established today when Lieutenant Arthur G. Hamilton, one of the Air Service's crack jumpers, leaped from the cockpit of a De Haviland airplane at 24,400 feet above sea level. The pilot landed safely after drifting eight miles. The previous record was 22,000 feet, made in Texas on Feb. 22." 7,440 m
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Editor's Supplement -- 2009

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Live Broadcast | Red Bull Stratos. 20:40 GMT 14, October 2012. Exit altitude: 128,100 feet, 39,045 m; Freefall: 4 minutes 20 seconds, 19,846 feet, 36,529 m; Maximum vertical velocity: 373 m/s, 1342.8 km/h, 833.9 mph, mach 1.24 (all results unofficial) 39,045 m

Editor's Supplement -- 2012

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Markoff, John. Parachutist's Record Fall: Over 25 Miles in 15 Minutes Alan Eustace Jumps From Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner's World Record. New York Times. (24 October 2014). "Alan Eustace ascending to 135,890 feet on Friday. He later plummeted to earth at speeds reaching 822 miles per hour, setting off a small sonic boom heard by people on the ground." 41,419 m
Alan Eustace and the Paragon StratEx Team make stratospheric exploration history at over 135,000 feet. Paragon Space Development Corporation, 2015.
"On April 14, 2015 the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, FAI - The World Air Sports Federation released the official parachuting world record breaking numbers.
Exit Altitude
  • 41 422 m
  • Previous record 38 969.4 m set by Felix Baumgartner of Austria
Distance fall with drogue device
  • 37 623 m
  • No previous record set
Vertical speed with a drogue device
  • 1320 km/h
  • No previous record set"
41,422 m

Editor's Supplement -- 2015