I gotta' get one of those!
Sep 26, 2008 at 9:06 AM 
Damn--Ironman is real!!!!!!!!
LONDON — A Swiss
adventurer using a jet-propelled wing has flown across the English
Channel from France in less than 10 minutes. Yves
Rossy landed safely in a field near Dover on Friday. He leapt from a
plane at an altitude of more than 8,800 feet, fired up his jets and
made the 22-mile trip from Calais, France, to Dover, England. He
began the Friday flight just before 8:07 a.m. EDT; by 8:15 a.m. EDT,
Rossy was above British soil and looped over onlookers before opening
his parachute, with his wings still strapped to his back. Rossy touched down in a field near the white cliffs of Dover. The
trip across the Channel traced the route of French aviator Louis
Bleriot, the first person to cross in an airplane 99 years ago. The stunt was postponed from its scheduled date Thursday when visibility deteriorated. "It's not so safe to fly across water if you can't see," Rossy told National Geographic Channel in a live television interview Thursday. "I don't have any instruments, and I need to be able to see the landing site."
Reader Comments (4)
thats just fucking nuts
Just make sure you don't hit any birds! That would be amazing! Abit pants having to parachute down though!
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OOPS IT DIDNT GO THROUGH.IT WAS A CLIP OF MEN FLYING IN WHATS CALLED A SQUIRRELL SUIT,.