Alban Geissler, who developed the SKYRAY carbon fiber wing with Christoph Aarns, suggested after Baumgartner's jump that the wing he used was a copy of two prototype SKYRAY wings sold to Red Bull (Baumgartner's sponsor) two years earlier. On 20 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made carbon fibre wing. In 1999, he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a child, he dreamed about flying and skydiving. Tribute to Baumgartner in Straße der Sieger, Mariahilfer Street, Vienna, Austriaįelix Baumgartner was born to mother Eva in Salzburg, Austria. He spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones. īaumgartner is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Though he still holds the two latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet-or, 41.42 km (25.74 mi) with a drogue. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue.
He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. Felix Baumgartner ( German: born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper.
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