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Felix Baumgartner (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈbaʊ̯mˌɡaɐ̯tnɐ]; born 20 April 1969)
is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil,
and BASE jumper. He is best known for jumping to Earth from
a helium balloon from
the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New
Mexico, USA as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.
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 became the first person to break
the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular
power on his descent. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical
freefall distance without a drogue parachute,
and vertical speed without a drogue. 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. Baumgartner
is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has
performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced
parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones. Felix
Baumgartner was born the first of two boys (his brother is Gerard) in Salzburg,
Austria. As a child, he dreamed about flying and skydiving. 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. On 20 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive
across the English Channel using a specially made
carbon fiber wing. 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. Baumgartner also set the world record for the
lowest BASE jump ever, when he jumped 29 metres (95 ft)
from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue
in Rio de Janeiro. This jump also stirred
controversy among BASE jumpers who pointed out that Baumgartner cited the
height of the statue as the height of the jump even though he landed on a slope
below the statue's feet, and that other BASE jumpers had previously jumped from
the statue but avoided publicity. He became the first person to
BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in
France on 27 June 2004 and the first person to skydive onto,
then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building
in Malmö,
Sweden, on 18 August 2006. On 12 December 2007, he became the first person
to jump from the 91st floor observation deck of the then-tallest completed
building in the world, Taipei 101 in Taipei,
Taiwan.