BASE Jumping
We take a look at Felix Baumgartner's awesome achievements via a collection of facts and figures.
When he jumped from the edge of space in October 2012, Felix Baumgartner’s name was etched in history. We reflect on some of the numbers that have shaped Felix’s career and defined his immense achievements to date (however we're such he's not done quite yet)…
29 – The height in metres of the hand of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil – the site from which Felix recorded the lowest ever official BASE jump in history.
2013 – The year Felix was named People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year, courtesy of National Geographic.
127,852.4 – The colossal number of feet above Earth that Felix made his historic jump. “Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are,” he quipped before making the gargantuan leap.
7 – The number of years it took Felix to achieve his ambition to secure the record for the highest freefall.
91 – Felix was the first person to BASE jump from the 91st floor – the observation deck - of the Taipei 101 building in 2007. At the time of the jump, it was the tallest building in the world.
1,000 – Each minute, Felix’s custom-built pressurised Red Bull Stratos capsule ascended 1,000ft, pulled upward by a helium balloon until he reached equilibrium at almost 128,000ft above Earth.
502 – Felix’s nickname is B.A.S.E. 502, the registration code assigned to the Austrian sportsmen in 1998 by the American B.A.S.E. Association.
843.6 – During his record-breaking Red Bull Stratos fall, Felix broke the speed of sound without mechanical assistance, after accelerating to 843.6mph. The thinner air in the stratosphere – the second major layer of Earth’s atmosphere that lies between the troposphere and the mesosphere – meant that he could reach Mach 1.25, unaided by machinery or fuel.
4m20 – The amount of time Felix spent in freefall after his historic jump from the edge of space.
Relive the historic Red Bull Stratos jump in the video below...
