Rocket MAN!

[walker 0]

Hi all

Quote[/b] ]Rocket man flies into record books at 180mph

Elizabeth Stewart and agencies guardian.co.uk, Thursday May 15 2008

A Swiss rocket man has become the first person to fly with nothing but a wing and a jet engine strapped to his back, hurtling above the Alps at 300km/h.

Adrenalin junkie Yves Rossy, a former military pilot and current Airbus commander for Swiss International Air Lines, was dropped from a plane at 2,438 metres (8,000ft). After unfolding his wing, Rossy soared through the Alps at 180mph (300km/h), putting on an aerobatic display for fans who had made the trip...

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Just watch the video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/5

Military applications?

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[HotShot 0]

Looked pretty cool. Reuters have some good pictures of the guy (calls himself "Fushionman") jumping out of the plane and landing.

Military application?

...C&C Tiberiun Sun?

[Spokesperson 0]

I doubt there are any military applications. The fuel is too expensive and fly time is too low.

[Mr_Tea 0]

The military use stuff like that already, as an glider of course and not that version with rockets.

You can "go" very far with that things, only depends on drop altitude.

[walker 0]

Hi all

You wait all your life for a buzz light year then two come along at once.

Some people are professional jet pilots with major designs and lots of experience and then there is this nutter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLOgMQon7c&feature=related

Two jet engines strapped to his boots fuelled from two kerosene filled hot-water bottles strapped to his chest inside his red kite suit.

I now declare i have seen it all

walker

[Sennacherib 0]

an other vid with the same guy (spanish vid)

[walker 0]

Hi all

In reply to D@nte

That film from a year ago shows what can go wrong with the system. I am guessing he had to rebuild it after that. Though if the wing has its own parchute perhaps not.

Rebuilding and improving the design must be what he has been doing over the last year certainly last weeks succesful flight would seem to confirm this.

That said I do not think you will ever catch me up in one of those things.

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[Rhodite 3]

I actually thought this was another wind up, and if it still is then more fool me!

That guy has to be mad!

[slatts 1978]

sky rockets in flight beeeewwwww

afternoon delight!! woooooop

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Hi all

You wait all your life for a buzz light year then two come along at once.

Some people are professional jet pilots with major designs and lots of experience and then there is this nutter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLOgMQon7c&feature=related

Two jet engines strapped to his boots fuelled from two kerosene filled hot-water bottles strapped to his chest inside his red kite suit.

I now declare i have seen it all

walker

Well he is Finnish you know... we have a tendency for that. Cheers for the video, hadn't seen this before.

Nice "glider" the guy has... quite brave, would love to get myself one of those!

[Dwarden 1125]

well 50km range for 'commercial' fan made project (300km/h for 10minutes) isn't bad so saying that's reason army can't use such thing ...

ofc army would want better ones

[4 IN 1 0]

the new bond movie can surely use one of these(even through it has been used once before)

[Call911-AGE- 0]

Oh I have got have one of those!! Though i think I'll pass on the NAP of the Earth flying

[walker 0]

Hi all

New video of "Fusion Man! much longer than other videos. It includes a couple of barrel rolls, a zoom ascent and some wing waggles to loose height and speed for landing approach and an amusing four point landing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn....adlines

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DOVER, England, September 26, 2008 - A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, parachuting into a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.

Yves Rossy leapt from a plane at more than 8,800 feet, fired up his jets and made the 22-mile trip from Calais in France. Rossy passed over a thin strip of land in front of South Foreland lighthouse, looped over onlookers and opened his parachute, his wings still strapped to his back.

"It was perfect. Blue sky, sunny, no clouds, perfect conditions," he said. "We prepared everything and it was great."

The trip across the Channel is meant to trace the route of French aviator Louis Bleriot, the first person to cross in an airplane 99 years ago.

The lighthouse was the site of Guglielmo Marconi's experiments with radio telegraphy in 1898. Bleriot used the white building as a target during his pioneering flight, the building's manager, Simon Ovenden, said.

Several hundred spectators rushed to greet the pilot, trying to take photographs with cameras and cell phones.

"It's a remarkable achievement, we saw the climax of his attempt as he came down to earth with his parachute. It's been an exciting afternoon," said Geoff Clark, a 54-year-old onlooker from Chatham, in Kent.

The carbon composite-wing weighs about 121 pounds when loaded with fuel, and carried four kerosene-burning jet turbines that kept him aloft. The wing had no steering devices — Rossy moved his body to control its movements.

He wore a heat-resistant suit similar to that worn by firefighters and racing drivers to protect him from the heat of the turbines. The cooling effect of the wind and high altitude also prevented him from getting too hot.

Mark Dale, the senior technical officer for the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association, described Rossy's flight as a "fabulous stunt.

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