Disaster for Felix "Cat" Bumgardener

[Skinflicka]

It's a sad day for terrestrial deities.

In what can only be described as a "tradgedy for humanity", America saw first hand the terrible consequences of poor preparation for a BASE jumper. A lack of personality coupled with a silly accent resulted in a catastrophic exit for the Austrian hunk with the curiously feline moniker, from NBC's Cupid reality show.

The show portrayed an eerie parallel with Felix's stunt career when he was rejected by his peers (3 needy chicks in that case but this wasn't expected to bear close scrutiny).


Felix's legacy remains with us and can be seen at he "UberSkyGod Museum" situated in the garden shed of Felix's childhood home in Ichtenbruhaubergunthensteinburg, Austria.

Don't take it personally Felix. We're just jealous.

No, really.

Love,

Skin

PS Your parents like cats...?

[Karin]

'God of the Skies' Makes Channel Crossing
Thu July 31, 2003 10:12 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - An Austrian stuntman on Thursday became the first person to skydive across the English Channel, free falling at 124 miles per hour in the process.
Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a plane at 29,500 feet above Dover, England, wearing a specially constructed carbon wing and flew toward France before parachuting into hills above the port of Calais.

"I made it which is great," he told reporters on landing.

"It's pretty cold up there. I still can feel nothing," said the self-styled "God of the Skies," who started parachuting as a teenager before taking up the extreme sport of BASE jumping.

Setting off early in the morning to avoid commercial flights, Baumgartner used oxygen supplies during the 22 mile flight to survive the rarefied air.

His team estimates that he attained a top speed of more than 124 miles per hour during the fall, which took only around 10 minutes.

In contrast, Louis Bleriot took 37 minutes to make his ground-breaking flight across the channel in 1909 and Matthew Webb took 22 hours to swim it for the first time in 1875.

The special wing is made of the same special lightweight carbon composite used in Formula One racing cars.

Baumgartner, 34, set world records for the highest and lowest parachute dives in 1999 with daredevil jumps from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro.

[sean]

didnt some guy do it 20 years ago on a hang glider.....fair play felix but get your ducks in a line before you start claiming firsts...remember the eiger thing some years ago...mind you any press is goood press...kudos on still being alive..

[imported_Mac]

my cat chairman meow managed a 3ft garden pond crossing with only a body position to take him over the water - being sponsored by go-cat chairman is reported to say that no other tabby has ever crossed such distance in their quest for feline flight - i believe that a female cat on the opposite side of town travelled just a distance but unsponsored - chairmans reply was "not sponsored not real" since the ego of my cat has grown with go-cat sponsorship i have had to remove his teeth so he can now only suck weasels through a straw!!!


me bored waiting for a danish mincer at an airport coz his flight is ####ing delayed!!! always said danes cant be trusted!! (except his sister that is)

cya later

Michael