Jump was harder than I thought: Felix Baumgartner

Washington: “It was really a lot harder than I thought it was going to be,” says Austrian Felix Baumgartner who broke the record for the highest ever skydive by leaping out of a balloon at a height of 39 km. “It was an incredible up and down today, just like it’s been with the whole project,” said Baumgartner, recounting his experience after the jump. [caption id=“attachment_490846” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Felix Baumgartner jumps out of the capsule. AP[/caption] “First we got off with a beautiful launch and then we had a bit of drama with a power supply issue to my visor,” redbullstratos.com Monday quoted Baumgartner as saying. Describing his record breaking jump from the stratosphere, he said: “The exit was perfect but then I started spinning slowly. I thought I’d just spin a few times and that would be that, but then I started to speed up. It was really brutal at times. I thought for a few seconds that I’d lose consciousness.” “I didn’t feel a sonic boom because I was so busy just trying to stabilize myself. We’ll have to wait and see if we really broke the sound barrier. It was really a lot harder than I thought it was going to be,” he said. IANS