His altitude was ,ft 31km. His record for the longest freefall remains intact - he fell for more than four and a half minutes before deploying his chute; Baumgartner was in freefall for four minutes and 20 seconds.
Kittinger, now an octogenarian, has been an integral part of Baumgartner's team, and has provided the Austrian with advice and encouragement whenever the younger man has doubted his ability to complete such a daring venture. The year-old adventurer - best known for leaping off skyscrapers - first discussed seriously the possibility of beating Kittinger's records in Since then, he has had to battle technical and budgetary challenges to make it happen. What he was proposing was extremely dangerous, even for a man used to those skyscraper stunts.
Others who have tried to break the records have lost their lives in the process. Baumgartner's team built him a special pressurised capsule to protect him on the way up, and for his descent he wore a next generation, full pressure suit made by the same company that prepares the flight suits of astronauts. Although the jump had the appearance of another Baumgartner stunt, his team stressed its high scientific relevance. The researchers on the Red Bull Stratos project say it has already provided invaluable data for the development of high-performance, high-altitude parachute systems, and that the lessons learned will inform the development of new ideas for emergency evacuation from vehicles, such as spacecraft, passing through the stratosphere.
Nasa and its spacecraft manufacturers have asked to be kept informed. However, the FAI rules, state that to claim an official ballooning record, a balloonist must also bring the envelope down and therefore the Austrian's altitude will forever remain just an unofficial mark.
This will probably air first in the UK and in the US in November, and in other territories sometime soon after. Profile: Felix Baumgartner. Baumgartner's leap. Five daredevils who helped science. A man on ledge, 23 miles up. Skydiver smashes YouTube record.
Space jumper hails boyhood hero. Skydiver on track for super jump. Dare-devil skydiver seeks record. Photos From Above. Time to take a look at life from a different angle. Red Bull Stratos: Felix arrives in Roswell. Felix Baumgartner was joined in Roswell, New Mexico, by his family and some of his closest friends. A Hall of Fame aviator, Felix Baumgartner, from Austria, has always felt at home in the sky and is constantly challenging his limits. From skydiving and BASE jumping to free-falling from space and now aerobatic helicopter flying, Felix Baumgartner can do it all.
In , after years of dedicated training, the Austrian received his aerobatic helicopter pilot wings in the USA and performed in his first air show above Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Flying helicopters is a lifelong lesson, you never stop learning. There is no telling where we may go next. Felix Baumgartner: First person to break sound barrier in freefall An unprecedented eight million people went onto YouTube on 14 October to witness the game-changing moment Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a parachute jump from a height of 38, Back to Hall of Fame.
Born to fly Felix was born in , but his journey truly began at the age of 16, when he completed his first ever skydive. He later left the army and for a short while supported himself by repairing motorbikes. The helium-filled balloon took Felix on his two-hour journey into the stratosphere. Highest altitude untethered outside a vehicle After depressurising the capsule — the point of no return — Felix perched on its ledge for a few final moments before making his death-defying, multiple record-breaking leap to Earth.
First human to break the sound barrier in freefall Once he had landed back on solid ground, Felix said: "First we got off with a beautiful launch and then we had a bit of drama with a power supply issue to my visor. The exit was perfect but then I started spinning slowly. I thought I'd just spin a few times and that would be that, but then I started to speed up. It was really brutal at times.
I thought for a few seconds that I'd lose consciousness.
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