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A well-known computer scientist, he fell faster than the speed of sound and broke Baumgartner's world altitude record set just two years ago by jumping from 135,000 feet. Alan Eustace, 57, a senior vice president at Google, during his record breaking leap from 135,000 feet.
In August, 1909, it was considered an achievement just to get to an altitude of 1,000 feet, during the world's first air show at Rheims, France or to be able to cover 6 1/4 miles in 9 minutes in an airplane. Henry Farman won the endurance contest by keeping his aircraft up in the air for three hours.