UN / FELIX BAUMGARTNER

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, who recently broke the sound barrier on his record 39-kilometer jump from the edge of space. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:16
• Production Date: 23 October 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: LEISURE; SPORTS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; PROMOTION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; PHYSICS
• Geographic Subject: AUSTRIA
• MAMS Id: U121023d

Description

STORY: UN / FELIX BAUMGARTNER
TRT: 2.16
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 OCTOBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

23 OCTOBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY

2. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s and Felix Baumgartner shaking hands
3. SOUNDUP (English) Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver, Base Jumper and Daredevil:
“There are a lot of cameras here.”
4. SOUNDUP (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Maybe they expect you to jump from the 38th floor of the United Nations.”
5. Pan right, Ban and Baumgartner
6. Various shots, Ban and Baumgartner in conversation
7. Various shots, Baumgartner signing guest book
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver, Base Jumper and Daredevil:
“I am a very competitive person. I always like to push the limit a little bit and I started skydiving when I was 16 years old, and if you stay in this sport for such a long time, you want to extend your limits. And I was always looking up to Joe Kittinger, that’s the guy who did something very similar back in the 60s, and he was also a very, valid partner. He was our consultant working on this project. And I always wanted to break records, you know, and as a skydiver, there’s no bigger record than breaking the speed of sound.”
9. Zoom out, camera
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver, Base Jumper and Daredevil:
“We were selecting the finest scientists from all over the world and put them together into one unit. We developed a lot, we did a lot of testing, and then finally we made it. So, you know, there’ve been a lot of different challenges on the project. There wasn’t only one challenge, it was many challenges, but we worked out all these problems, we solved all these problems, and finally we were successful.”
11. Close up, camera
12. Med shot, Ban and Baumgartner walking out

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (22 October) met with Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, who recently broke the sound barrier on his record 39-kilometer jump from the edge of space.

Ban and Baumgartner engaged in a lively conversation, with UN chief quipping that the many photographers present at the meeting expected the Austrian daredevil “to jump from the 38th floor of the United Nations.”

Baumgartner later offered the Secretary-General to teach him how to skydive.

Speaking to UNIFEED, Baumgartner said he started skydiving when he was 16 years-old, and “if you stay in this sport for such a long time, you want to extend your limits.”

He said that US Air Force Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II, who in 1960 set the record for the longest sky dive, had been an inspiration and was a consultant on this project.

Baumgartner said that “as a skydiver, there’s no bigger record than breaking the speed of sound” and acknowledged the work of “the finest scientists from all over the world” who overcame “a lot of different challenges” in preparation for the jump.

Baumgartner, who is 43 years-old, said he was now officially retired from the daredevil business.