Where do you go when the thrill of cruising the Swiss Alps in your jet backpack is gone?
You go flying in formation with the Breitling L-39 team.
Good work if you can get it.
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IIRC, Yves Rossy’s jet pack maxes out at 185 mph and cruises at 125 mph. Looks like the L-39 have full flaps set for the formation flight. Conformation from our cast of savvy aviators would be nice, since I’m but a lowly former shoe.
so where do you hang the missiles? and guns?
SF Insertion?
A Gyro-Jet pistol in a shoulder holster and a SAW on a sling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Rossy
This genre of flight has made significant contributions to what is possible. It is from these pioneers that we make progress, not from bloody Government Programs. (Usually these folks are superb athletes, accomplished professionals and often have advanced STEM degrees). I could not do it now, but I do applaud these innovators.
Progress by individuals, not by Government Fiat.
Being a commando Cody and Rocketeer fan, I’m glad I lived to see this….
I want one…
Was I the only one with bottom google ad for “Easy Cremation Planning” running during the vid?
The guy’s a former fighter-pilot himself, iirc, no?
Yep, and an Air Force type -ergo the intrepid part.
And a few years ago a man flying without a plane near a pair of jets was only a VFX scene in Iron Man…
I do hope he can find peace in his old age
…rather than pieces of him we in our old age find.
He’s a Swiss air force pilot and flew Bugs. I believe he may also be a swissair one, too. he’s flown the English Channel and the Grand Canyon since his debut kin the Alps. I’ve thought, since seeing the original videos that our SF/SEL Teams could benefit greatly, only witha a sled version…complete with some compartments for equipment to keep the drag coefficient down. Tell me you wouldn’t get a big “HOOYAH!” for buying them some.
“Good work if you can get it”…sounds like someone else we all know and love.
Can anyone think of a reason he’s not in formation with a group of Jetpersons?
Chris; I’m sensing is Lex’s next gig. two hornet pilots. And anyone needing a parachute is welcome to it….