Yves Rossy
 

Yves Rossy

Yves Rossy (born August 27, 1959) is a Swiss pilot, inventor and aviation enthusiast. He invented and is the first person to have flown a jet engine-powered wing strapped to his back. The flight occurred in November 2006 in Bex, lasting nearly six minutes. While work with jet packs to propel humans dates back as far as World War II, his is the first contraption to also have wings.

Yves has served as a fighter pilot in the Swiss Air Force flying Dassault Mirage IIIs, Northrop F-5 Tiger IIs and Hawker Hunters. He flew Boeing 747s for Swissair and now works as an Airbus pilot for Swiss International Air Lines.

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Yves Rossy Crosses English Channel via Jetpack
Ladies and gentlemen, it is 2008 and we still don't travel via jetpack. Well, at least not most of us. Swiss engineer Yves Rossy just crossed the English Channel using his own homemade jet-propelled wing. Full article at the LA Times. ...

Jetman Yves Rossy lands, who is the photographer?
Yves Rossy flew across the English Channel from France to the UK last week while strapped to a rocket powered wing. I finally got to watch it last night and enjoyed it immensely. It'sa great achievement. Slightly mad perhaps, and very ...

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Do You Remember Yves Rossy?
Ever since he was a child, Yves Rossy had wanted to “fly like a bird”. And so he developed and built a winged pack with rigid aeroplane-type carbon fibre wings with a span of about 8 feet (2.4 m), and four small kerosene-burning Jet-Cat ...

"Jet Man" Yves Rossy Crosses English Channel Like a Human Rocket
Wile E. Coyote has nothing on this guy. Yves Rossy, aka Jet Man, zoomed into the record books this morning, flying across the English Channel strapped to a single jet-powered wing, with only a helmet and flight suit for protection. ...

Yves Rossy
“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 ...

Jet-Pack man, Yves Rossy, crosses English channel with his self ...
The latest news about this flying man is he managed to cross the English channel with his jack-pack wing. The guy leaped from a plane with four kerosene-burning jet turbines mounted on a wing on his back. Along his journey in the sky, ...

Yves Rossy, FusionMan
"A Swiss daredevil's bid to cross the English Channel propelled by a jet-powered wing strapped to his back moved a step closer yesterday with a successful 36km test flight over Switzerland. The flight proves that his jet-powered wing ...

Jet Man Yves Rossy Flies Across The English Channel
Remember the story yesterday about Yves Rossy, the Jet Man who was going to fly across the English Channel? Well, today, he did it. He took off over France, flew 22 miles across the Channel, and landed successfully in Dover in less than ...

Rocket Man Yves Rossy "UFO" Encounter Over English Channel
Footage of rocket man Yves Rossy's cross channel flight has revealed a cigar shaped "UFO", British UFO expert Nick Pope believes the sighting is “significant” and called for the MOD to investigate. "Rocket Man's... read more.









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