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It was a feat that would have made Buzz Lightyear proud...or extremely envious. But for Yves Rossy, who finally completed his flight over the Grand Canyon in a jet suit, it must have been a relief. For the Swiss adventurer, dubbed JetMan, was forced to cancel his daring spectacle at the last minute on Friday due to red tape and safety issues. Despite the setback Rossy did not give up and on Saturday strapped on his wings and took to the skies for a spectacular eight-minute flight over a five-mile radius

The wife of missing adventurer Steve Fossett has filed a petition for her husband to be declared legally dead, some three months after the 63-year-old disappeared without trace in the Nevada desert. Despite a huge search operation mounted following Fosset's evidently ill-fated 3 September flight from Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, roughly 70 miles southeast of Reno, neither he nor the remains of his Bellanca Citabria Super Decathalon have been found. Mary Downie, one of Mrs Fossett's lawyers, told the Chicago Tribune: "Although an ongoing recovery mission continues, all involved have accepted the inevitable conclusion that Mr Fossett did not...

IN THE past eight years, Karl Bushby has crossed the Andes and the Nevada desert, negotiated Colombian jungles and Arctic ice floes, and talked his way out of a Panamanian jail. But yesterday, the former paratrooper’s attempt to walk around the world appeared to have been thwarted by an even more formidable obstacle: Russian bureaucracy. A Russian court ruled that Mr Bushby and his fellow adventurer, Dmitry Kieffer, should be deported for walking across the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska without the correct paperwork. They would be fined 2,000 roubles (£40), flown back to Alaska, and not allowed to return...