Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartneris an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He is best known for his participation in the Red Bull Stratos project, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on October 14, 2012. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km, reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h, or Mach 1.25, . He became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power relative to the surface on...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionDaredevil
Date of Birth20 April 1969
CitySalzburg, Austria
CountryAustria
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.
Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
I'm retired from the daredevil business.
I'm more a competitive person.
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
I like to challenge myself.