Tag: FUSIONMAN

Well, Yves Rossy, the idiot (or genius, depending on how you look at it) who planned to strap himself to a rocket-powered carbon-fiber wing and fly across the English Channel, successfully made his record-breaking flight across the notoriously chilly body of water yesterday without plummeting to his death. The Swiss daredevil completed his 22-mile, 12-minute, jet-pack-powered flight without ...

Swiss lunatic flying enthusiast, Yves Rossy, is planning an attempt to become the first person to cross the English Channel with a jet pack strapped to his body. Here's how it will go down: Rossy plans to drop himself from an airplane over 8,000 feet above Calais, France, fire up the kerosene firing engines on his home-made (seriously?) jet pack, and fly across the famous body of water at up to ...