Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets 93
smitty777 writes "Slashdot has been following Yves Rossy in his previous exploits across the Grand Canyon and his attempts at international flight. He is now flying in formations with real jets. He even does a barrel roll around the two fighters in the video below."
Help me Fox! (Score:2)
So.... (Score:2)
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When will lawsuits cease to exist?
Not really new (Score:4, Interesting)
There is a poster calendar in my office from Breitling that shows a picture of Mr. Rossy in formation with four Breitling aerobatic jets from an airshow in 2009.
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I thought I have seen this on one of the history channels programs (disc, his, nat geo group) but this is some cool footage. I wonder how long it took to convince the pilots to let a man with some jets and a wing strapped to his back run formation around their million dollar machines however.Either way, that just looks fun as all hell
If anything went wrong, I don't think it would be the plane piilots who came off worse.
Quick, let's monetize it! (Score:1)
There is a poster calendar in my office from Breitling that shows a picture of Mr. Rossy in formation with four Breitling aerobatic jets from an airshow in 2009.
These impactical adventurer types. He should be monetizing the idea. Just picture it - a squidgee taped to his arm, and a sign taped to his torso that reads "$5 to clean your windows"? *grin* Oh and he should change his name to Benny and team up with the band that made the son ;-)
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Yeah, but this is video. Totally new technology for making me wet myself over how fucking cool this dude's schtick really is.
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I guess that answers my lift question (Score:3)
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Seriously? You've never seen his other videos? Dude's been doing loops and barrel rolls for years. You can't do those without lift.
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GP's real name is Woody.
"It's just falling with style!"
Re:I guess that answers my lift question (Score:4, Insightful)
Cool, but more of a publicity stunt than anything else. Go Rolex!
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Some newer helmets have little spoilers on them to help reduce that effect, although I've heard the overall effect usually pushes your head down a bit.
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AWESOME (Score:2)
What speed? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a cute promo that he 'flies with jets' but notice they had to have their flaps way out to fly slow enough to stay with him.
Re:What speed? (Score:5, Insightful)
According to TFA (crazy, right?) they're flying at "just above stall speed" and the jet-suit is at full throttle doing 120 - 180 MPH. So yeah, it's not like the jets couldn't have left him completley in the dust without really trying, but it's still damn impressive that he can keep up at all. I mean, that's a guy strapped to a bit of carbon fiber and metal, able to reach the (minimum) speed of stable flight for a fixed-wing jet aircraft.
Re:What speed? (Score:4, Insightful)
Hey man, at least you didn't go the whole "it's not as fast, garbage, blah blah" route. There's a man flying with basically a wing and engines strapped to his back, and all people seem to do is shit all over this awesome feat of engineering rather than appreciate it in any way.
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Exactly. All I can say is, good for him. Does anyone here realizing he is literally living every boy's dream?!?!? Is there anyone here who wouldn't jump at the chance to strap themselves into this thing if offered?
If anything, get made at the video's producers, for whom a flying man isn't dramatic enough, that they felt they had to add the title "Jetman vs. Jets"
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Lol, 'splattered on some tarmac' ... he lands by parachute. It was therefore badass when he flew across the Channel. Buzzing around over land only has the risk of catastrophic parachute malfunction.
Re:Staged photo (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone who is "unimpressed" by a guy with a wing and four jet engines strapped on his back flying in formation with jet planes for no reason other than because he feels like it needs to have his or her geek card revoked.
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Eh. Standard /. car analogy: My daily driver could theoretically be a indy 500 pace car. indy500 cars are cool because they're high tech and high performance and all that. My daily driver is cool because it hauls me thru stop and go rush hour traffic with perfect reliability for 13 years now from 110 above to 20 below. I bet it would be fun as heck to drive my car as an indy 500 pace car. But I'm not impressed by mere numerology that there exists a spot on the speedometer below my redline and above th
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Your analogy doesn't quite illustrate the risk involved. It would be more like pacing an Indy 500 race with a moped.
I was more thinking rocket skates...
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How delusional.
Re:Staged photo (Score:5, Insightful)
Eh, I'm fairly impressed that a jetpack can fly in formation with any fixed-wing jet aircraft. Yeah, they're only a little above stall speed, but most manned aircraft even close to the size of that suit's wing can't reach 100 knots at all, much less 180.
As for the distance, remember that his suit has very little mass to withstand turbulence. Sure, it would be cool to show him nestled between the two planes or soemthing like that, but it would also be extremely dangerous, especially since if something went wrong he's already at max power and they're already at min, which limits the maneuvers either can make. Flying around them close enough to see the pilots is already one hell of an accomplishment.
Re:Staged photo (Score:5, Insightful)
As opposed to a cameraman who just happened to be flying by as Rossy just happened to be flying by as two L-39C's just happened to be flying by and by some miracle they all wound up in the same shot? The shot is real, the three flew in such a way that all were captured by a single camera shot, nothing more is being claimed from what I can tell.
Re:Staged photo (Score:5, Insightful)
The Internet + Modern Science + Pace of change = ridiculously hard to impress people
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Oblig. Louis CK: Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy. [youtube.com] He nails it.
(Jump to 2:00. I'm linking to that because it's much better quality than the copies on youtube.)
Lateral thinking my friend.... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not really about whether this jetman set up can compete with jets, my friend. It's showing that his set up is reliable enough they can take on a stunt like this.... which means it's probably interesting for military special forces for getting their people into places they couldn't get to otherwise.
- it sells expensive watches, rich people want to believe they are part of the dream, just like kids do when they buy their nikes or adidas
- it sells the technology to military, who wouldn't really expect it to be used to catch up with real jets and open them up with can openers, they will have other ideas...
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Wrong. Look at the screen at 1:05. Rossy is clearly closer to the camera than the jets, but even if you assume he is equidistant at this point, the jets are still at least 4 Rossy-lengths long. Get your eyes checked.
Hardest part of flight (Score:1)
Screaming PEW PEW PEW PEW the whole time you are flying
I think we found someone to beat Chuck Norris (Score:5, Funny)
The man is simply and totally made of awesome.
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Move over, Duke.
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Titanium. Hollow. Filled with awesome at the same pressure as the core of the Sun.
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You could show this video to Chuck Norris, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Ron Jeremy, and they'd all say "man, I wish I was that guy."
Of course, it's just a money-and-training issue, so any of them could do it (though Ron would probably have to drop a few pounds first.)
And this is news ? (Score:1)
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Um, this setup is slightly different from his old one, and if you bother to read the text under TFV you'd see that he is, indeed, working on a way to get airborn from the ground.
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He has been doing the exact same thing since 2006. Instead of promotional video, he might want to work on autonomous take-off.
Yeah, tell him to call us once he's got something that can do at least Mach 2, has a functional invisibility shield, and can run on a waist pack cold fusion power sourcetoo. Until then, colour us unimpressed.
Do you know what Breitling is? (Score:1)
Breitling makes designer watches for men. They don't fund this guy for the sake of science or nerd fun or any other interesting purpose.
His entire purpose up there is selling the James Bond image that marketers try to associate with fancy watches, expensive cognac, race car camp, etc. Really, Yves Rossy serves no higher purpose than the pair of DD tits on the fashion model draped over the man who just so
Re:Do you know what Breitling is? (Score:5, Insightful)
In a world where NASA hasn't been able to get really good funding since the moon landings, are you really going to criticize a guy over a sponsor whose greatest crime is trying to sell you bling bling?
Re:Do you know what Breitling is? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Do you know what Breitling is? (Score:5, Insightful)
Agree. Breitling is the shiznit. As are Omega and IWC. Rolex, on the other hand, is shite.
Breitling have been supporting aviation for a very long time. Chronographs for pilots are one of their specialties. Back when a watch was a critical navigation tool they were the watch to have. They returned the favor by sponsoring all sorts of aviation competition.
And really, it doesn't matter who sponsors it. Yves Rossy is the one doing the science on his equipment. His wing could be covered with a giant Orangina logo and it'd still be the single coolest fucking thing in the air.
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I was going to take issue with this, citing the SpaceShipTwo or an SR-71 or something, but then I realized you're right.
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Yeah I think all of those are in the same league of coolness, even if they're very different.
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Be sure to forward your email to him. I'm sure he'll sign right up to your newsletter.
I'll bet you're a real hoot at parties.
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I don't think you do (Score:1)
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There is a close and natural relation between Breitling and aviation since nearly one century. They make chronographs and watches that are more aeronautical flight intruments than watches, and which have been widely adopted in aviation not for bling-bling reasons but for their specialization and their high-perf.
There is no marketing need to "try to associate" some James Bond image to watches that are used by astronauts in space (since NASA's Mercury program)...
Breitling is sponsoring many aviation projec
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Breitling makes designer watches for men. They don't fund this guy for the sake of science or nerd fun or any other interesting purpose
You sound like a particularly annoying thirteen year old, jam-packed with smug. When you grow up, you will find that in the real world you have to pay for things, you can't just rely on handouts from your doting parents.
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Why does it matter who's sponsoring him? He wants to fly a jet-powered wing. The guy's an airline pilot, which means that if he's really lucky (and assuming he hasn't inherited any wealth) he might just make 6 digits a year. Playing with flying turbine-powered carbon fiber toys will push his finances to the limit, Breitling's helping to cover the costs.
I wouldn't care if Viagra or GoDaddy were sponsoring him.
Interview at TED talks (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.ted.com/talks/yves_rossy_fly_with_the_jetman.html [ted.com]
No Capes! (Score:3)
I seriously hope if he's flying around jets like that that he doesn't have a superhero cape! ;)
Above my house (Score:2)
I can see my house on the video at 1:49.
I remember having see the two Breitling jets flying low, I think this was early last week.
Counterpart to JetMan (speed flying paraglider) (Score:5, Interesting)
Here you can see a speed flyer (tiny, tiny paraglider) doing a similar trick with a guy flying a wing suit (in Wengen Switzerland). Kudos!
B.A.S.E. XRW part one - http://vimeo.com/29231099 [vimeo.com]
B.A.S.E. XRW part two - http://vimeo.com/30623100 [vimeo.com]
And this one is just plain cool. Great tune and slick video mix.
Spitfire Proximity - http://youtu.be/IZ9xoV6sUFc [youtu.be]
(as my flying buddy told me: *the only reason to wear a helmet for these sports, is to have a place to mount your GoPro*)
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Sorry, but that's not a spitfire. This is a spitfire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EcCYA68m_w&feature=related [youtube.com]
(this is 16 at once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw [youtube.com])
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That's not a Spitfire, this is a Spitfire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGkMxr2WX4 [youtube.com]
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That's not a very nice thing to say about the fighter jets.
The new bike (Score:2)
This Breitling Commercial (Score:2)
coolest thing i've seen (Score:2)