In this photograph provided by the Breitling, Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, flies past Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado Mountain during a successfull flight over Rio de Janiero, Brazil, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Yves Rossy, popularly known as Jetman, 2 May circled Rio’s famed Corcovado flying with a jet on his back, before landing on Copacabana Beach in Brazil.
He was launched from a helicopter at 10:45 Wednesday and headed towards the Corcovado, then circled its famous giant Christ the Redeemer statue.
“Face to face with this symbol of peace filled me with emotion,” said the pilot, who flies at 200-300kph.
He circled the Ipanema and Copacabana beaches as well as the Pain de sucre before opening his parachute to land on Copacabana.
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Sponsor Breitling announcd the news of Jetman's flight over the Grand Canyon
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Jetman, as Vaud resident Yves Roissy is known, has done it! His lightweight jet-propelled wing took him across the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, Tuesday 10 May in 8 minutes, flying at 220 kph, three days after he delayed his scheduled flight.
Roissy, who had permission last week from US federal aviation authorities, held off, saying he was not prepared.
A helicopter launched him at 2,400 metres abovve the west end of the canyon and he flew at about 60 metres above the rim before opening his parachute and landing gently at the bottom of the canyon, in Hualapai country.
He thanked the native Americans there, who agreed to his flight over land they consider sacred.
Roissy’s previous exploits have included a first jet wing flight over the Swiss Alps and flights over Lake Geneva and the English Channel.
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s Jetman, aka Yves Rossy, was scheduled to take off from the rim of the Grand Canyon in the US Friday 6 May and do aerial loops over the canyon but in the end he decided he had not had enough time to train adequately, he told US reporters.
Rossy, who is also popularly known as Fusion Man and Rocket Man, had received flight permission from the FAA, the US body that licenses pilots and approves projects that use air space for a 15 minute flight using his jet-propulsion wing. The Vaud resident is the first and remains the only person to fly with only a jet-propelled wing. The first major exploit with the wing for the former Swiss fighter jet pilot was in 2008, when he flew over the Swiss Alps.
Jetman first publicly performed aerial loops in November 2010, using a newly refined wing.
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Yves Rossy with two Breitling planes over Nidwald, Switzerland, July 2010 (photo ©2010 Breitling/Alain Erlout)
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Lake Geneva area resident and world record-breaker Yves Rossy succeeded in doing two aerial loops after shooting himself out of a hot air balloon at Bercher, near Geneva, Friday morning 5 November, wearing a custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit. He then used a parachute to land safely.
Rossy, also known as Fusion Man and Jetman since he became the first person to cross the English Channel in September 2008 using jet propulsion, in July 2010 became the first man to fly in formation with two airplanes, using only his body to stay in line with the Boeing Stearman Breitling Wingwalkers that he joined at 1,000 metres, after being dropped off by a Pilatus PC-6. The two planes and the man flew in formation for six minutes.
The former pilot, age 51, attempted to cross the Straits of Gibralter in 2009 but ditched when the turbulence became too strong.
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Yves Rossy, aka Fusionman and Jetman, flying in 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “Jetman” Yves Rossy, former Swiss military and commercial pilot, found himself in the water, uninjured, after failing to fly from Morocco to Spain. The 50-year-old was attempting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with a jet engine strapped to his back, in a feat similar to his crossing of the English Channel in 2008. Details of what caused him to crash are not yet available.
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