re: Baw jumps off the tallest bridge in Austin

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I've jumped from an 60/70 foot bridge into a river in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. This guy's hang time was comparable to that hang time.

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I'm sure we could put together an amount of money to arrange you making that jump. You've done it before, right?

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Watching it again that looks like it's 90 feet

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You are way off. This is the 360 or Pennybaker bridge. I calculated the height in multiple ways. The bottom of the bridge to the water is ~100' subject to lake level.

Using Google Earth w/3d the top is about 170'

Using the picture and semi-accurate references I get 165'-195'.

Time of free fall gives me 185' and using the various heights gives an impact velocity from about 80-90 mph.

I am going to say conservatively it was 165' (since he wasn't quite at the apex) and his impact velocity was close to 80mph.

The highest I have jumped from was a bridge in New River Gorge in WV only about 45' and in various military schools I did rope drops from 40' to 90' or at least that is what they called them, when you are there it seems higher, in retrospect, it seems lower. Rope drop height comparisons would be reduced by your hanging "length" so my falls were more like 33 to 83 feet assuming the rope height was relayed accurately.