Yves Rossy
Yves Rossy’s performance in front of the world press capped five years of training and many more years of dreaming.
About the Movie with Yves Rossy: Swiss “Rocket Man” Yves Rossy becomes the first person in the world to fly with wings under rocket power….
Yves Rossy is a Swiss daredevil known as “Jet-Man with His Wing”.
One of the pioneers of human flight, Yves Rossy, recently achieved a landmark which went largely unheralded.
Fusionman Yves Rossy, not to be confused with Buzz Lightyear, successfully crossed the English Channel today the first to do so in a solo flight with jet-propelled wing.
Rossy, 48, had stepped out of the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter aircraft at 7,500 feet and unfolded the rigid eight-foot wings strapped to his back before jumping.
Former Swiss Air pilot Yves Rossy crossed the English Channel tracing the route first flown by French aviator Loius Bleriot in 1909.
Rossy claims to be “the first person to gain altitude and maintain a stable horizontal flight thanks to aerodynamic carbon foldable wings,” which are folded by hinges at the midpoint of each wing.
He jumps out of planes, ignites hit jetpack, and then soars over the Swiss Alps.
The former military pilot, 45, who flies Airbuses for Swissair, spent five years developing his wings for his flying man project but went one better with his ‘jet-man’ project by adding two kerosene-powered jet engines to his original wing design to become the first man to fly like a bird: horizontally.
“This flight was absolutely excellent,” the former fighter pilot and extreme sports enthusiast said after touching down on an airfield near the eastern shore of Lake Geneva.
September 29, 2008—Yves Rossy, known as Fusionman or Jet Man, flew across the English Channel using only the jetpack and wings strapped to his back.
BEX, Switzerland — A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.
Sept. 27: Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing.
Rossy developed and built a winged pack with rigid aeroplane-type carbon-fiber wings with a span of about 8 feet , and four small kerosene-burning Jet-Cat jet engines under the wings; these engines are large versions of a type designed for model aeroplanes.
Yves Rossy , nicknamed “Jet Man” and “Fusion Man”, is a Swiss pilot, inventor and aviation enthusiast.
Rossy made headlines in 2003 when he flew 12 kilometres for the loss of just 3000 metres of altitude, achieving his feat by jumping out of plane wearing three metre, carbon fibre wings.
Swiss stunt-man Yves Rossy had to call off the flight 15 minutes before he was due to take-off when clouds built up over Dover, who would have guessed clouds over England.
The stunt, which will be shown on live television, will test his flying machine to the limit.
Rossy used his homemade jet wing, launched from a plane 2.5 KM high, to cross the 35 KM of The English Channel in 12 minutes.
