Jet-man - something for thrill seekers!

[Kereru]

A friend, Brian in Perthshire, Scotland emailed me this link of Jet-man a wing strapped to his back skydiving with the wing fully extended and looks like it is powered for a short time. Sorry the accompanying language is not English.

www.jet-man.com/actuel.html

Video link took a while to download but played fine on second time I ran it.

Link to smokepump / propulsion?
www.cat-ing.de/turbines/

Didn't we have someone here in NZ doing a similar thing with a glider wing attached to their back?

Colin

[FlyNavy]

Dave, You can have the page translated at this URL by entering the page for translation URL here:
(below is the French to English translation from this site you mention)
babelfish.altavista.com/
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2006: a rival for Batman

Obsessed by the myth of Icare the men tried to fly like the birds; failing to reach that point, of the pioneers flying machines built in which they were locked up to control them.

Mû by the desire to always be a bird the man developed, these last decades, of the apparatuses enabling him to fly while benefitting from the ascending currents as in the hang glider and parapente, or gliding flight going down with winged combinations or small rigid wings on the back.

However nobody is not unaware of that since 1939, human could really fly while springing and while moving in the airs at will: its name is BATMAN hero of comic strips whose creator is Bob Kane.


Today, Batman can leave its page of paper and the movie screens to fly over the Alps Suisses, thanks to Yves Rossy who carried out the great dream of Léonard De Vinci.

In the line of its many predecessors flying men, this Switzerland impassioned of flight since always, after having flown on Mirage III with the army, then as commander on Airbus, not only designed and developed wings which enable him to fly, but it also built them and tested during these seven last years.

Finally since the last autumn, the dream became reality thanks to four mini-engines assembled under its wings, which propel it to more than 200 km/h to the attack of the tops. During the flight, the body of Yves becomes that of a bird, and except a handle of the gazs, it does not control its wing, but truly STEALS it, thanks to some light movements of its body, just like do it the birds.

And like Batman, when it flies beside planes which accompany it, when it puts the gazs, the latter can only look at it disappearing in the azure...

The main thing is made, but there remain some stages to be crossed until takeoff, the lifting figures, the vertical rises and the participation in the next air demonstrations.

Yves is not not very proud to have arrived only and with the assistance of his friends, with this decisive goal that everyone judged unrealistic. For the next stages, it will need partners and support, which should not miss, taking into account the interest and of the enormous potential of the project.
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Phil.

[planeimages]

The very same. Perhaps not so loony given his background.

I think the line someone has in his posts is very apt. "Caution, cape does not enable wearer to fly."

[flyjoe180]

Some people take things a bit far I believe.