GenevaLunch » Yves Rossy http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:27:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Jetman flies over the Alps in formation with jets http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/01/jetman-flies-over-the-alps-in-formation-with-jets/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/01/jetman-flies-over-the-alps-in-formation-with-jets/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:38:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64307 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Jetman does it again: astonishes, with his latest feat, flying 28 November with two Breitling Jet Team jets from Dijon, France, in formation over the Alps. We’re nearly speechless, so just watch the video (other feats by Vaud’s famous pilot Yves Rossy, formerly known as  Fusion Man):

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/01/jetman-flies-over-the-alps-in-formation-with-jets/feed/ 0 Grand Canyon will have to wait for Fusion Man http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/07/grand-canyon-will-have-to-wait-for-fusion-man/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/07/grand-canyon-will-have-to-wait-for-fusion-man/#comments Sat, 07 May 2011 06:15:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57388 GenevaLunch.com 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/07/grand-canyon-will-have-to-wait-for-fusion-man/feed/ 1 Airborne high jinx men boast success in Switzerland http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/05/airborne-high-jinx-men-boast-success-in-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/05/airborne-high-jinx-men-boast-success-in-switzerland/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:32:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49527 GenevaLunch.com 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/05/airborne-high-jinx-men-boast-success-in-switzerland/feed/ 0 Jetman gets Gibraltar dunking http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/25/jetman-gets-gibraltar-dunking/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/25/jetman-gets-gibraltar-dunking/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:44:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32355 GenevaLunch.com 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 [...]

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