Beautiful and extraordinary YouTube vid of Yves Rossy's Flight at Grand Canyon West
Posted on 10/14/2011 12:36:13 PM PDT by Daffynition
HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. — Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy last Saturday completed a flight over the Grand Canyon in his custom-built jet suit, his sponsor announced Tuesday.
Rossy was airborne for more than eight minutes, soaring 200 feet above the canyon rim on the Hualapai Reservation after launching from a helicopter, Swiss watchmaker Breitling said in a press release.
A spokesperson for Grand Canyon Resort, a Hualapai company that facilitated the flight, confirmed that it happened.
Word of a Saturday flight came as a surprise because Rossy cancelled a planned Friday flight, saying it would be too challenging without any practice runs.
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No reporters were present for the Saturday flight and a Swiss news website that has been tracking Rossy noted that he was nervous having so many reporters and onlookers waiting for him last Friday.
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Beautiful and extraordinary YouTube vid of Yves Rossy's Flight at Grand Canyon West
SG ping
I read in a National Geographic last month that this guy (who was featured on the front page) bought the farm on one of these flights last year.
I thought this guy died!
I just put this on my Christmas wish list.
Lol! Too funny! Banana Man!
Man, biking in 3D. The guy’s face of joy after the flight was priceless.
The man is packing some big ones, isn’t he?
I believe he is still flying 747s for Swissair.
No indication of his demise on his web site.
http://www.jetman.com/?page_id=24
We’ll be able to soon see if Neiman-Marcus catalog is going to have his & hers models this year. :)
He had to stand along side Steve Fossett, General Chuck Yeager, Evil Knievel, Alain Robert, and Omar Locklear. ;)
>>> No indication of his demise on his web site.
I found the issue of National Geographic I was referring to.
My bad... in the same article, there is a full page photo of Jim Mitchell leaping off a cliff, and the footnote mentions he died weeks later in a similar jump that went bad.
The article was about “Can We Fly”, and features Rossy on the front cover and on the first page of the article.
I just assumed that the article was an exclusive on Rossy.
I’m glad he’s still flying around.
for the aviation ping list
He should paint his suit green and name it ‘envy’
Four JetCat P200s. Not that big. Only five inches around.
Thrust at full power 50 Lbs / 220N Weight incl starter 4.8 Lbs / 2.2Kg Diameter 5.1 inches / 130mm RPM Range 33,000 - 110,000 Exhaust temp 670C Fuel consumption 25.37 oz min at full power Fuel Jet Al, 1-k kerosene Lubrication 5% oil mixed in fuel Maintenance interval 50 hours
LOL!
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Many men are captivated by the ability of birds to enjoy FRee flight without much restriction. See Jonathon Livingstone Seagull for more info.
This man has done as much as he can, so far, to eliminate some of those restrictions.
He is having more fun than anyone else, I’d wager!
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