Dj felix baumgartner biography

Starting almost 10 years ago, Felix has been flying as a commercial helicopter pilot in Europe, after taking his license in USA. He is licensed today for many kind of helicopters, he is doing extreme flights, but also charity flights and he is hardly training to become a rescue helicopter pilot, to save other people lives. He is also taking very seriously another big passion, race car driving — he was participated in some famous races, from Nurgburgring, to Bathurst 24 hours race, in Australia and many more.

After of free fall Baumgartner radioed to Mission Control that his visor was fogging up, echoing his earlier concerns about its heating. After minutes of freefall he deployed his parachute, which opened and arrested free-fall at minutes. Approximately 9 minutes after jumping from the capsule, Baumgartner landed on his feet in eastern New Mexico.

Baumgartner dropped to his knees and punched the air in victory. Born on April 20,Felix was raised in Salzburg, where he dreamed of skydiving and flying helicopters and was inspired by astronauts on TV. The bottle of acetone was not tightly closed and I got to breathe the vapors of it. My mother saved me from there but I was completely dizzy, could not walk straight for a moment and ended up with a massive headache.

Dj felix baumgartner biography

Have you ever had another profession? What did you do? I was a DJ back in those days. I lived in an arty squat and we used to organized parties that would last all night long. What made you choose to become a watchmaker? Who have you worked for in the past? What made you decide to go in the direction you have chosen. After graduatingfrom the Solothurn watchmaking school, I saw an ad for working in Geneva as an independent watchmaker.

I did not want to join my father and work with antique. I wanted something fresh and new. So I took the chance and migrate from Schaffhausen to Geneva with no hesitation. We were all independent but working in his atelier. The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 February Archived from the original on 10 October Retrieved 9 October Archived from the original on 2 March Retrieved 22 January Archived from the original on 8 September Washington Post.

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