How fast did Felix Baumgartner fall? Does Felix Baumgartner still hold the record?

Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper.

He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.

How fast did Felix Baumgartner fall? Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25.

He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent.

He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue.

Does Felix Baumgartner still hold the record? Though he still holds the two latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet—or, 41.42 km (25.74 mi) with a drogue.

Baumgartner also spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.