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Supersonic Skydiver

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Soopahmahn
Skydiver preparing for 120,000-foot supersonic fall - CNN.com

Anyone want to speculate on the physical effects of breaking the sound barrier on a human? I'm not entirely sure I understand what happens - the sound waves of your passing are in essence building up behind your axis of flight right? So isn't it dangerous to come back from supersonic? Depending on the altitude at which crossing that threshold occurs, there would be more or less pressure built up behind you, so I could see that wreaking havoc with his parachute or maybe tossing him around a bit extra?

Kudos to Red Bull too :yesway:
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HaGGuS
This dude did not need red bull.
He weighed 150 pounds.
140 pounds of that were brass balls the size of your head. :metal:
19.5 mile freefall. :nuts:

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