Felix Baumgartner's greatest ever freefalls

FELIX BAUMGARTNER'S GREATEST EVER FREEFALLS 120,000 He leaped from the highest bridge to the tallest building and when Earth seemed too small to contain the BASE jumping ambitions of Felix Baumgartner, he 110.000 looked to space instead. This 43-year-old former soldier from Austria is always chasing the ultimate experience, going higher and faster than anyone before him. Overcoming fear and facing 100,000 the unknown, Felix Baumgartner is the man who fell to Earth. Here's a look at the career highlights of one of the world's greatest 90,000 thrill seekers. 1,700 80,000 1,600 1,500 70,000 1,400 1,300 60,000 1,200 1,100 THREE NEW 50,000 1,000 WORLD RECORDS 900 MAXIMUM ALTITUDE 40,000 800 of 24.261 miles 700 MAXIMUM FREE FALL SPEED 30,000 of 834.4 mph (=Mach 1.24) breaking the sound barrier assisted only by gravity 600 500 TOTAL FREE FALL DISTANCE 20,000 400 of 119,846 feet. 300 10,000 200 100 1,669 Felix Baumgartner 1999 2004 2007 2012 Taipei 101 Tower 95 feet 1,479 feet 623 feet 1,125 feet 1,669 feet 119,846 feet World record lowest World record BASE BASE jump into World record BASE jump Jump from the stratosphere BASE jump from world's tallest building, jump from the Petronas BASE jump from Christ the Redeemer statue in from the highest bridge in the world, Millau Bridge, Marmet Cave in Twin Towers in Kuala Velebit National Park, Taipei 101 Tower, Taipei, Taiwan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lumpur, Malaysia Croatia France www.FLOYDWORK.cOM This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. OutdoorWorldDirect.o.uk FEET