Felix Baumgartner was killed Thursday in Italy, in the region of the marches north of the peninsula on Thursday. Similarly,
According to the Italian daily newspaper there will be. Therefore, he would have lost control of his paraglider after discomfort, and would be Fallen into the pool of a holiday residence at Porto Sant’ELpidio, slightly injuring a young woman. In addition, The extreme jumper was already died at the time of the impactstill according to He Corriere.
On October 14. In addition, 2012, this incredible jump since the limit with space, orchestrated by the most famous drinks “energizing”had brought him into the record book for a second reason: he became the first man to cross the sound wall in free fall while reaching the maximum speed of 1,357.6 kilometers On the hour, protected by a pressurized spacecraft specially made for death felix baumgartner, parachute jump the feat.
“I have always had the desire to be in the air”he had told the Austrian media at the time. Therefore, at the time of the preparation of his record jump.
Baumgartner had said that his training for the Red Bull Stratos jump. finished smoothly in the desert of the state of the New Mexico in the United States, had started 26 years earlier, in 1986, when he had jumped for the first time a parachute plane.
“I climbed to trees. I wanted to see the world from above”he explained at the time when he spoke of his youth.
The native of Salzburg worked as a car mechanic. repaired motorcycles, while already looking for ways to fly to the sky. After making his first parachute jump for adolescence, he perfected himself within the Austrian army.
“Born to fly” – Death felix baumgartner, parachute jump
Carrier “born to fly” (“Born to fly”). he had established death felix baumgartner, parachute jump one of his first records in 1999 during a jump-jump jump (a parachute jump from a promontory and not a flying device) as low as possible: the hand of the statue of Christ Redemptor of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, which is only 29 meters above the ground.
Helicopter pilot and aerostier licensed, he also practiced boxing and climbing. He had also established world records of the highest base-jump jumps twice.
In 2003. he had the first “Crossing in free fall” From the English Channel, jumping from an airplane and flying from England to Calais, in the north of France, using a pair of carbon wings.
Sharing his time between Switzerland. the United States, Baumgartner gladly commented on the policy of his country and was not hidden to frequent far-right Austrian politicians.
He had made fun of the social networks of the fight against climate change by pronouncing himself death felix baumgartner, parachute jump against environmental parties. LGBTQ rights.
But. despite the dangers and controversies, the Télégenique Baumgartner has never seemed to fear having to pay the ultimate price for his passion. “I hate that I am called a lover of thrills or a drug addict, because it is not the case. I like everything that is planning”he said before the 2012 waterfall.
