Things you can do with a jet fighter in the Swiss Alps.
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Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the experience and thrill of flying.
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Incredible. Here's a high quality video of the French airforce: http://hvattum.net/2006/09/18/the-chase-french-mirage/
Totally awesome...Where's that damn barf-bag....
Whee!
How many avalanches did this flyboy trigger to make his video?
Amazingly cool! What I want to know is, who did the music?
Jeff: the song is "Ameno" by a group called Era. Here's a YouTube video of the song:
Thrilling.
When I took my Mountain Flying Endorsement, they left out most of that. Actually quite a bit of it was to expressly warn us not to get into those situations.
Several tens of thousands of horsepower do make a difference.
I'm of two minds about that video. It is rather neat. But all the time I was watching it, I kept remembering the flyboys who killed 20 people in Italy by flying into the cable of of ski-lift.