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Born in Salzburg, Austria, in , Felix began skydiving at the age of 16 and extended his skills as part of the Austrian military’s demonstration and competition team. In , he began performing skydiving exhibitions for Red bull. The company’s out-of-the-box thinking and Felix’s adventurous spirit clicked and they’ve collaborated ever since, becoming today the world’s most known Red bull athlete.
By the ’s, Felix felt that he’d gone as far as he could with traditional skydiving, so he extended his canopy skills with BASE jumping &#; parachuting from a fixed object or landform &#; one of the most extreme and dangerous sport. He finds that the lightning-fast reflexes and precise techniques required by such low-altitude feats also enhance his high-altitude skydiving technique.
Felix has made 14 world records with his BASE jumps all over the planet , being a pioneer who has opened the path for all the skydivers around the world, for whom he is a great inspiration. Besides BASE jumps, he was the first person in the world to cross the English Channel with a carbon fiber wing, the first to compete flying next to a plane… and the list of his daring and so dangerous
Felix Baumgartner on Red Bull Stratos: the day the black sky turned blue
It was on October 14, that a then year-old skydiver from Austria stepped out of a capsule on the edge of space, at an altitude of almost 40km, and began a free fall to Earth that made him the first human being to travel faster than the speed of sound outside a vehicle.
It took just 34 seconds for Felix Baumgartner to hit Mach 1, creating a sonic boom that could be heard by those watching from the New Mexico desert below and the millions around the world watching the mission live. After four minutes and 20 seconds, he opened his parachute and went on to achieve a clean landing.
A project more than five years in the making had gone almost perfectly. It was played out on 77 TV channels globally and the stream nearly broke YouTube servers. A decade on, content from Red Bull Stratos on YouTube has been watched close to a billion times and looking back, Baumgartner still sees it as a seismic moment. As he puts it in the new Space Jump documentary airing on Red Bull TV: “I was the first human being outside of an aircraft breaking the speed of sound and the history books. Nobody remembers
How Felix Baumgartner became Red Bull Stratos's real-life Superman
Find out more about the man who broke the sound barrier during Red Bull Stratos' mission to the edge of space - BASE jumper and skydiver Felix Baumgartner.
The Austrian flew to an altitude of 38,m (,ft) in a helium-filled balloon, and completed a record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, becoming the first person to break the speed of sound without mechanical assistance.
The year-old, who has completed many incredible feats in his BASE jumping career, broke two other world records (highest freefall and highest manned balloon flight) to complete his most daring mission to date.
Experience the record-breaking freefall in which Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in this exclusive POV video:
Millions watched the Red Bull Stratos mission live but for the first time footage has been released showing the breathtaking freefall through the eyes of Felix himself.
On Sunday, the Austrian ascended to 38,m (,ft) in a stratospheric balloon and during freefall accelerated to 1,kph (mph), achieving Mach Thanks to a GoPro body camera positioned underneath his visor, viewers can no
Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner started skydiving at 16 (born ).
He joined the Austrian military, focusing on parachute training.
Baumgartner won the BASE jumping world title in
In , he set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building – the Petronas Towers.
Baumgartner was the first to skydive across the English Channel using a carbon fibre wing ().
He BASE jumped from the Millau Viaduct in France, setting a new record ().
Baumgartner skydived onto and BASE jumped from the Turning Torso building in Sweden ().
He jumped from Taipei 's 91st floor, setting another record ().
In , Baumgartner teamed up with scientists and Red Bull for the highest skydive attempt.
He completed two test jumps from extreme altitudes before the stratosphere jump ().
On October 14, , Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in a freefall from the stratosphere.
He goes by the nickname 'B.A.S.E. – Fearless Felix.'
Post-stratosphere jump, he drove an Audi R8 LMS in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring race.
He's a prominent advocate for the Wings For Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation.
Baumgartner is developing his own humanitarian proje
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