Tag: ROCKETPACK

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 ...

Technically they're not jet packs -- they're rocket belts -- but who cares! Yes, Switched reading public, you can now purchase your very own rocket belt! Two companies, Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana (TAM) and Jet Pack International (or Jet P.I. for short, which sounds like a 70's cop show), are selling rocket belts to the consumer. For just $250,000 TAM will sell you a sleekly styled, ...