The Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb boasted {that a} well-known Austrian had visited them. They introduced the information concerning the uncommon visitor on their Fb pages.
World report holder
“We had been visited yesterday by Felix Baumgartner, a well-known Austrian skydiver who’s
In 2012, he set a world report by parachuting from a peak of just about 40 km from a particular capsule.
On the identical time, he turned the primary man to interrupt the sound barrier in free fall, reaching a velocity of 1358 km/h.
He did not miss the chance to remind himself of the contribution of our inventor Faust Vrančić to the historic improvement of parachuting, and he additionally loved different components of the show, expressing his satisfaction with what he noticed,” they wrote within the announcement from the Technical Museum.
“Felix is additionally an acrobatic heli pilot, and for that you actually need to have metal, um, you already know. I do not know what his mother says about that. Attention-grabbing that he’s in Zagreb, he may exhibit a little bit helicopter flight”, was one of many feedback below the publish of the Technical Museum.
Automobile mechanic
Baumgartner completed his mechanical occupation and labored as a automotive mechanic. On the age of 18, he signed a contract for 5 years within the Austrian military. He labored as a parachute teacher in Vienna’s Novi Mjesto.
After ending his service within the Austrian military, and over 2,500 skydives, he began performing BASE skydiving from tall buildings, bridges, aerials and mountains
In 2012, with the Purple Bull Stratos mission, he set a brand new world report: a parachute bounce from a peak of 39,045 m with the assistance of a particular capsule and a helium balloon. He additionally broke the world report for a balloon flight (39,045 m), the quickest free fall (1342 km/h or Mach 1.24) and was the primary man to interrupt the sound barrier in free fall.
Jumped right into a pit on Velebit
Years earlier than he jumped from the sting of house and have become well-known all around the world, Felix Baumgartner “broke” one other report, and that in Croatia! He’s the primary jumper who jumped with a parachute into the 200-meter-deep Mamet pit on Velebit.
For this enterprise, which was carried out in 2004, Baumgartner collaborated with the Croatian GSS and Croatian mountaineers and speleologists, amongst them Dr. Darko Bakšić.
The bounce was carried out on September 29, 2004, and lasted a complete of 10 seconds. Baumgartner had 7.5 seconds of free fall and opened his parachute at a depth of 140 meters, and the MP3 participant he had with him helped him estimate the best time.
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