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Ironman Spotted in Switzerland? |
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Written by Samuel Goldsmith
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
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It's a
bird . . . it's a plane . . . it's a Swiss guy with a retractable wing and
four jet engines strapped to his back.
Yves
"Fusion Man" Rossy, a former Swiss air force fighter pilot, jumped
out of a plane yesterday wearing the contraption he'd spent five years
designing and building. Then he took a sightseeing flight through the Alps at
186 mph.
Flying
at an altitudes of 2,600 feet above sea level, he did a series of figure-eights
by making small body movements, then folded his wing and parachuted to a safe
landing.
"It's
like a second skin," he said afterward. "If I turn to the left, I
fly left. If I nudge to the right, I go right."
(newyorkpost.com, may 15, 2008)
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