(youtube) Another top-flight feat makes aviation history. After crossing the Channel, flying alongside two Boeing Stearman biplanes carrying the Breitling Wingwalkers, looping the loop around a hot-air balloon and hurtling across the sky over the Grand Canyon, Yves "Jetman" Rossy has shifted up yet another gear with a formation flight alongside two jets from the Breitling Jet Team.
The world's first jet-powered man jumped off a helicopter with his rigid wing equipped with four jet engines. Adjusting his trajectory and altitude by his body movements alone, he then performed aerobatic figures above the Swiss Alps in the company of two L-39C Albatros planes from the Breitling Jet Team, the world's largest professional civilian aerobatics team performing on jets.
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PlayhousePalssays...Rocketman is missing a tail! Great job on avoiding the jet wash too ... wooohoooo =oD
Aziraphalesays...Any word on how fast the guy was going?
critical_dsays...I would be very careful to have that guy buzzing about a jet I was flying. At those speeds you don't have the chance to say "oh shit" before you are gone.
GeeSussFreeKsays...>> ^critical_d:
I would be very careful to have that guy buzzing about a jet I was flying. At those speeds you don't have the chance to say "oh shit" before you are gone.
It's not that bad really, I mean you are on a planet that is spinning like a thousand miles an hours, but shaking hands with someone isn't that big a deal. Once you are in formation, speed isn't as much of an issue. Relative velocities is what makes things crazy, so when you have 2 jets going head to head...ya, little room for mistake there
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