Swiss 'Fusion Man' Flies Over the Alps With Jet-Propelled Wings

Fox News ^ | May 15, 2008

[Eye On The Left]

Years ago, aviation enthusiast and inventor Yves Rossy dreamed of soaring through the sky like a bird.

In 2006 that dream took flight.

Known as Switzerland’s "Fusion Man," Rossy in November 2006 became the first man in the world to fly with wings and four jet engines strapped to his body; on Wednesday he displayed that talent to the world.

The inaugural flight lasted six minutes in Bex, Switzerland, and included an emergency parachute programmed to automatically open if he were to black out, NBC11 reported at the time.

"The idea is to have fun, not to kill yourself," Rossy said in the story.

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[Floyd Rivers]

He makes the guy with the personal helicopter outfit look like a chump.

[Crolis]

Hmm, the first thing I thought of was this toy I had when I was younger:

Ah...memories. :)

[corkoman]

Well how about an Arc Reactor???

Personally I would choose the Iron Man get up as it would hold my gut in a bit better.

[Rebelbase]

Asbestos underwear is mandatory.

[Eye On The Left]

I just realized, the website that I swiped that Elmer Fudd animation from is some lunatic left humorous takeoff on wikipedia. Check this out. It's from the site:

"Aww this changed dwastically in 1937, when young Ewmer came of age and acquiwed a hunting pewmit and his fiwst Bwowning M2 50-cawibew semi-automatic machine gun. With wuthless abandon, he stwafed hundweds of squawe miles of old-gwowth fowest, slaughtewing evewy wiving thing in wange with a wewentwesswy lethal hail of buwwets. The enwaged Fudd, having tasted innocent bwood fow the fiwst time, and finding it quite dewicious, then stockpiwed thousands of suwplus Wowld Waw I-ewa fiweawms, along with miwwions of wounds of wive ammunition, and set out to ewadicate evewy wast cute and adowable woodwand cweatuwe on the Amewican continent — thus cleawing the way fow eventual takeovew by then-fledgling Waw-Mawt Cowpowation. Fudd dances up a stowm with futuwe Pwesident Wonald Weagan in the 1947 MGM.com musicaw Tempwates Ahoy! Fudd dances up a stowm with futuwe Pwesident Wonald Weagan in the 1947 MGM.com musicaw Tempwates Ahoy!

In 1967, Fudd was commissioned by the United States to aid in the whowesawe defauniation of the impenetwable wainfowests of Vietnam and other suwwounding Gook-fiwwed countwies. Water that year, he suffewed a twagic accident when a fuwwy-woaded napalm tanker expwoded in his shower staww, wendewing him compwetewy haiwwess fwom head to toe. Undiscwosed militawy documents found at the scene suggested that thewe may have been fouw pway invowving a devious panda beaw."

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Fudd

[fishhound]

http://www.jet-man.com/prod/index_en.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXxkWXncuo&feature=related
(front the info on right...
05:26 It’s like there’s a big handle in your back, and the good Lord takes you by it and shoves you through the air, it’s fantastic!!

[Eye On The Left]

Yeah, I agree: the guy is nuts! Thanks for the links.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[Eye On The Left]

Thanks. Can’t believe this post got close to 1,400 views.

[Doomonyou]

Very Cool.

[the invisib1e hand]

this is downright inspirational.

I hope algore caught sight his carbon wingprint.