(LONDON DAILY MAIL) As he plummeted towards the ground, sickeningly spinning head-over-heels, millions of spectators could only imagine the terror Felix Baumgartner felt as his free fall transformed into an out-of-control ‘death spin’.
But now newly-released footage from a camera mounted to his space suit shows exactly what the skydiver could see as he began to lose control of his supersonic fall at 834mph.
Yesterday, the 43-year-old Austrian became the first freefall diver to break the sound barrier, and also broke the record for the highest-ever manned balloon ascent, but the attempt could have easily been fatal as he explained afterwards.
‘In that situation, when you spin around, it’s like hell and you don’t know if you can get out of that spin or not,’ he said.
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