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September 26, 2008
Fusion Man — Episode 2: Across the English Channel
Yves Rossy, featured here two months ago after achieving his lifelong dream of controlled powered flight wearing a homemade jet-powered wing suit on May 14, 2008, today moved the ball a whole lot further down the field.
He leaped from a plane 8,000 feet over Calais, France, extended the eight-foot wings strapped to his back, ended his free-fall and swooped into level flight, throttling up his four noisy jets and accelerating to over 100 knots toward the distant Dover Cliffs across the English Channel, where he ended his 13 minute flight by unfurling a steerable parachute, touching down near Saint Mary's Bay after his historic 22 mile flight.
Up top is video coverage of the epic event.
Talk about an inflection point: it took him less than five months to move from a proof-of-concept demo to a significant aerial achievement.
When can I buy one?
September 26, 2008 at 03:01 PM | Permalink
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oh, a much happier ending than the priest with a bunch of balloons from earlier this year, eh?
Posted by: jo | Sep 28, 2008 12:59:58 AM
How wonderful it is to see his achieve his dream...I wonder if ten years from now, we will look at this as a launching point? (I'll keep my feet on the ground).
Posted by: Suzanne | Sep 26, 2008 5:46:08 PM
