Felix Baumgartner
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Felix Baumgartner was an Austrian skydiver, extreme sportsman, and BASE jumper. He was widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New
Baumgartner in 2014
Suit used by Baumgartner to cross the Channel in 2003
Baumgartner's Stratos suit and capsule on display in Hangar-7, 2015
Baumgartner in 2013
Powered paragliding
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Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be
Felix Baumgartner
…in a relationship with the Romanian television presenter Mihaela Radulescu Schwartzenberg. On 17 July 2025, Baumgartner died at the age of 56 during a powered paragliding flight in Porto Sant'Elpidio, near the town of Fermo in Italy. He lost control of the craft and crashed into a wooden hut near a swimming pool of the…
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Two powered paragliders in flight
A powered paraglider (paramotor) flies by.
Launch of a powered paraglider