Swiss professional pilot Yves Rossy is the world's first man to fly with fitted jet-fuel powered wings strapped to his back
If all goes well, he will be the first man in history to cross the Channel as a human jet. If it does not go according to plan, he could find himself floating in the busiest shipping lane in the world. Or worse.
But having jumped out of more planes with more strange contraptions attached to him than almost anyone alive (or dead), Yves is full of confidence.
Not only will he have three parachutes on his back but, just the other day, he managed to fly the same distance as the Channel using his latest prototype and land safely.
However, on that occasion, he was flying over his native Switzerland, where he did not have to worry about oil tankers and tides.
'If I calculate everything right, I will land in Dover - but if I get it wrong, I take a bath,' he says cheerfully when we meet at his suburban home outside Geneva. 'So I must ask the Big Bird up above in Heaven to help me.'
If all goes well, he will be the first man in history to cross the Channel as a human jet. If it does not go according to plan, he could find himself floating in the busiest shipping lane in the world. Or worse.
But having jumped out of more planes with more strange contraptions attached to him than almost anyone alive (or dead), Yves is full of confidence.
Not only will he have three parachutes on his back but, just the other day, he managed to fly the same distance as the Channel using his latest prototype and land safely.
However, on that occasion, he was flying over his native Switzerland, where he did not have to worry about oil tankers and tides.
'If I calculate everything right, I will land in Dover - but if I get it wrong, I take a bath,' he says cheerfully when we meet at his suburban home outside Geneva. 'So I must ask the Big Bird up above in Heaven to help me.'
When will these things be on the market? Might make the trip to Tama faster...wonder if they come equipped with satellite radio?
2 comments:
Hope if these do come out on the
market there isn't a weight limit.
Probably could get Roger Muller
to go to NJ that way to instead
of driving. Just a thought - - -
I'm sure we could strap 2 of them on you.
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