page_title: Marc Hauser (skydiver)
section_title: Chasing the Jet Stream - Guinness World Record
hierarchical_section_title: Marc Hauser (skydiver) / Career / Chasing the Jet Stream - Guinness World Record
caption_attribution_description: English: 30 June 2018: Marc Hauser free fall jumping into the jet stream from the hanging platform of the balloon.
context_page_description: Marc Hauser is a professional Swiss skydiver, artist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of speed tracking and holds the world record for the fastest horizontal free fall. Hauser is also the founder of Erfolgswelle AG, a communications agency.
context_section_description: Marc Hauser is also the first human ever to perform a free fall jump into the jet stream near Forbes, New South Wales, Australia, on 30 June 2018.
  As skydiving suit he was wearing a thermal protection jumpsuit without wings (no wingsuit).
  The exit altitude of the jump was at 7,400 m / 24,000 ft above sea level, the temperature at -40° Celsius / -40 °F. At exit altitude the jet stream speed was 137 km/h (85 mph). The groundspeed / horizontal speed of Marc performing this free fall skydive was at 270 km/h (167 mph). During his free fall Hauser covered a horizontal distance of 5.9 km / 3.66 miles in total. Hauser opened his parachute at 2,000 m / 6,500 ft altitude above ground.
  The BBC World News documentary Chasing the Jet Stream  covers the free fall jump into the jet stream in three parts, which aired on 2, 8 and 15 December 2018. The documentary highlights both Marc Hauser’s goal to raise awareness for cleantech-pioneering enterprises using airborne wind energy systems, as well as the execution of the preparations that eventually lead to the free fall jump into the jet stream.
  In 2019, the Guinness World Records honored the parachute jump as the world's first skydive into the jet stream.
caption: Forbes/Australia: Marc Hauser jumping into the jet stream on 30 June 2018.
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