Felix Bumgartner, Dardiville, who jumped from the stratosphere, dies in a 56 -year -old flight. star-news.press/wp

Felix Bumgartner, the schools who achieved the umbrella leap in the stratosphere in 2012, died on Thursday in a demonstrator in Italy, a local mayor confirmed. Firefighters who responded to the scene said that they found Paraguileer crashed on the side of a swimming pool in the city of Porto Saint Elbio, on the eastern coast of Italy.
“Our society is deeply affected by the tragic disappearance of Felix Bumgartner, a symbol of courage and emotion,” said the mayor of the city, Massimiliano Carpella, on the symbol of courage and emotion in extremist aviation. Facebook. Carbila I told Associated Press The extremist athlete was in the area on vacation.
Witnesses told Associated Press that they had heard a loud boom while Paraguayder was out of control. Merilla Evanov, 30, told AP that she was in the area with her young two children when they saw the umbrella losing control.
“Everything was normal, then it started to spin like a summit,” Ivanov said on Friday. “We fell and heard a roar. In fact, I turned because I thought it had crashed on the rocks.”
Boomgartner, 56, tops international addresses In 2012 When it was uploaded to the stratosphere, about 24 miles, in a capsule carried by the helium balloon, then faded to drop in New Mexico. During the jump, he broke the record for a fastest free fall, descending at about 843.6 miles per hour and becoming the first person to break the sound barrier without the help of the car.
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Originally from Austria, Bumgartner began jumping with umbrellas at the age of 16 and sharpening his skills in the Austrian army, according to his personal website. In 1988, he collaborated with Red Bull, who sponsored the stratosphere leap under Stratos and many other bold exploits.
Training and planning for the 2012 Stratos jump took five years. Among the records that Bumgartner was on that day the highest leap, was held by the Air Force Captain Joe Kittenger since 1960, when he jumped from the open -air gendol basket that rose to 102,000 feet. Kitteriner will continue to training Baumgartner on the Stratos jump that has shattered the record. (Boomgartner’s height record was broken two years later.)
In addition to jumping with umbrellas, Baumgartner was a group of base, and broke two records in 1999: the highest base leap and the lowest base leap. The low jump, which he took from one of the loyal hands of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, was only 95 feet. The high jump was taken from the 88th floor of Petronas twin towers in Kuala Labor, Malaysia, although this record has been broken since then and was held by the late Valery Rosov, who jumped from Chu Ouo in 2016.
Baumgartner was also a helicopter and part of the Red Bull’s Aerial Aerial team.
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“Since I was a child, I have always wanted to jump from a plane,” Bumgartner told Red Bull in an interview after I became a licensed helicopter.
“For Red Bull Stratos, we had a very long list of” What if “, in other words, other looks could happen and how we were dealing with them in an emergency.
While Bumgartner’s works that inspired millions, his political views were known to cause controversy. On social media, he mocked climate activists and others who sought to reduce the effects of climate change, and expressed his opposition to LGBTQ rights, according to the news agency of Agence France -Presse. It is too Once proposed Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban must receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his anti -immigration policies.
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2025-07-19 01:07:00