A Swiss man just flew over the English Channel with a jet pack
- September 26th, 2008
- 28 Comments
Seriously. His name is Yves Rossy and he’s a Swiss airline pilot by day and adventurer by night. The 22-mile flight took him only 10 minutes and he had hoped to reach 125 MPH. He started by jumping out of a small, French plane and quickly flipped on the jet pack. From there he attempted to follow the route Louis Blériot took 99 years ago when he became the first man to cross the Channel in a plane. Once over his target, he simply parachuted down. All this happened just minutes ago (1207 GMT or 8:07 a.m. est), but National Geographic has a special about the historic flight tonight, 8 PM et/pt. The crazy part, he steers with his head. Seriously.
Video was from yesterday before he crossed the Channel.
thebonafortuna (Who am I?)
2 months ago
This. Is. Awesome. Best Friday news in a long, long time. Can’t wait to read more about it.
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2 months ago
Hmm….so when are they coming out with electric jetpacks for personal flight? that would be something - - although I’m not sure how it would work if everybody was flying around instead of driving.
Sweet stunt though.
yodidoo (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Even the headline says Swiss… where did you pull the french from?
Cool nevertheless
notretardedperson (Who am I?)
2 months ago
are you incapable of reading? it says a swiss pilot in the first line, the only mention of something being french is the airplane
Andy (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I can’t believe this guy actually made it…
sandeep (Who am I?)
2 months ago
what happens to his head
Jiff Wilson (Who am I?)
2 months ago
That is absolutely insane!!
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Joss (Who am I?)
2 months ago
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Aaron (Who am I?)
2 months ago
That wasn’t flying, that was falling… with style!
Minty (Who am I?)
2 months ago
wow…that is something really amazing.well done to the man
Retired Spammer (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Finally someone more insane then me, Props to you bro!!!.
Kevin (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Lol, this would have made the germans happy back in the 40’s
carver (Who am I?)
2 months ago
It great to see an individual conceive, design, build and test their creations successfully. This is where many, if not most, of the technological achievement are born.
someone (Who am I?)
2 months ago
“He started by jumping out of a small, French plane”
I can fly around the world without a jet pack if you start me high enough. Seriously, start on the ground or it’s meaningless.
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boethius (Who am I?)
2 months ago
How is the guy going to take off from the ground? Run really fast? What he needs is a really high cliff to jump from but that still may not be a safe height to get the kind of speed he needs to light his pack and get altitude. Short of some kind of jet boost that shoots him a thousand feet in the air - and what about the G forces there? - it doesn’t seem very feasible to take off from the ground.
Mack Goodman (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Very cool. Soon we will all be able to fly that way to work.. Imagine the safety problems!! With people running into each other in the sky.
Josh Pyles (Who am I?)
2 months ago
“I am Iron Man”
Yves Rossy (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Live - Yves “Jet Man” Rossy English Channel Crossing - Swiss Jet Man - Jet-man: Human Powered Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMjuzy68hw0
Watch more Yves “Jet Man” Rossy Videos on his YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/YvesRossy
Have a great day,
Yves Rossy
http://www.JetManBlog.com
Bassem B. (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Wow… you guys had never heard of this guy before? geez. He’s been all over the Internet for months now.
Awesome stuff.
mikeylikesit (Who am I?)
4 days ago
VERY nice stunt. Huge improvement over the 10-20 second ‘jet pack’ flights we’ve seen over the past several decades. Can’t wait to see his (or others’) next step in this field.