He deployed at 4:16 - full deployment at 4:19.
Joe Kittinger's record will stand at 4:39 for the jump he made in 1960.
Felix WILL get the record for highest altitude jump - 128,000 feet. Caught Joe's altitude, but don't remember it exactly - it WAS over 100k feet - think it was 118K or thereabouts.
Project Excelsior - Wikipedia info ...
An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude ... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.[4]
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