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The record was held for a very long time by Colonel Joe Kittinger who managed a staggering freefall time of 4 minutes 36 seconds jumping from an altitude of 102,800ft (also an altitude record).

Since then, wingsuit skydiving has taken over the record setting. The discipline still involves freefall so is applicable, however it changes frequently. Adrian Nicholas set the first of these wingsuit records in March 1999 with a freefall time of 4 minutes 55 seconds. Currently, a trio of Spanish skydivers (Santi, Toni and Alvaro) hold the record at 6 minutes 47 seconds, but this will undoubtedly increase as time goes on.

Making a wingsuit record like this requires quite a few things:

  1. An experienced skydiver with thousands of jumps.
  2. Positive-pressure facemask oxygen systems and the training to go with it (practice jumps and barometric pressure chamber tests).
  3. An aircraft capable of taking the skydiver in an unpressurised aircraft to an altitude of at least 30,000ft. This is expensive.
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