The first jet-powered flying man in the history of aviation.
Jet propelled skydiving wing!
On June 24th, 2004
Yves Rossy
drops out of the Pilatus airplane at an altitude of 4000m over the
Yverdon airfield. Before pulling on the little lever that controls the
opening of his wings, Yves lets himself glide for a couple seconds and
at the altitude of 2500m, he starts the ignition of the engines and
waits 30 seconds for them to be able to stabilize. Once they are steady,
he can finally speed up the engines and suddenly the dream comes true.
He manages a horizontal flight at 1600m from the ground for more than 4
minutes, at a speed of 100 knots in formation with the Pilatus
airplane.
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