Rocketman Takes Off In Custom-Made Wingsuit 73
disco_tracy writes "Yves Rossy, the Swiss adventurer who has already flown across the English Channel using a winged jet-pack, pulled off another exploit Friday, flying two aerial loops in a new version of his invention. Rossy, who was testing a new, more aerodynamic model of the jet-pack, jumped from a hot-air balloon at 2,400 meters (7,900 feet) and performed the stunt during an 18-minute flight before making a parachute landing."
The BBC has some video of his flight, and the Washington Post put up a handful of pictures.
Wow (Score:2, Informative)
inaccurate (Score:1, Informative)
One, it's not a wing suit. It's a suit with a hard wing attached to it. Sure, technically, that could be called a wingsuit (or maybe a winged suit) but wingsuit has typically come to mean the flying squirrel type suits.
Two, he did not do two loops. He did two ROLLS.
Not taking off (Score:5, Informative)
Mayhaps a poor choice of words, disco_tracy.
Re:Not to take anything away but . . . (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Imagine what it would be like (Score:3, Informative)
Turkeys can, in fact, fly.
But they can't land for squat. I watched one come in for a landing while hunting, and I must say that had to hurt - he hit the ground and proceeded to blast through some underbrush like a bowling ball.