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Felix Baumgartner (; born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He set world records for skydiving an estimated , reaching an estimated speed of , or Mach 1.25,〔"(Baumgartner's Records Ratified by FAI ! )" (Record ) ''Fédération Aéronautique Internationale'', October 14, 2012. Accessed: 18 November 2013.〕 on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power relative to the surface on his descent.〔 〕 He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without drogue, and vertical speed without drogue. Though he still holds the latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet - or, 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. Baumgartner's most recent project was Red Bull Stratos, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. As part of this project, he set the maximum vertical speed without drogue, highest exit altitude for a parachutist, and greatest vertical distance of freefall.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Parachuting World Records )〕 ==Biography== Felix Baumgartner was born first of two boys on 20 April 1969 (with baby brother Gerard), in Salzburg, Austria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=redbull.co.uk )〕 As a child, he dreamed about flying and skydiving.〔(The picture that proves Felix Baumgartner always dreamed of reaching for the skies )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=23 March 2012 )〕 On 20 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made carbon fiber wing.〔〔 This page gives the date of Baumgartner's jump as 31 July 2003.〕 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.〔Abrams, p. 251.〕 Baumgartner also set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, when he jumped 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.〔Abrams, p. 249.〕 He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004〔(Millau Viaduct )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Felix Baumgartner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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