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Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets
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."
Even without a plane or weapons I bet he still gets more kills than Slippy.
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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.
Even without a plane or weapons I bet he still gets more kills than Slippy.
Even without a relevant comment I bet you still get first post.
I always wondered if Rossy's rig actually generated any lift. Now I know.
You jaded cynical old coot.
'tis but a scratch.
Just this.
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.
Ho hum, I've read this before. Stupid trolls posting fatuous comments have been around since the 70's and earlier. Nothing to see here, mod down.
Thats a staged photo. Its not how it appears. Breitling uses L-39Cs, which are cool little planes. But, they're 40 feet long.
The aircraft is about 2.5 Rossy length units long. The L-39 is 40 feet long. So, if the aircraft and Rossy were equidistant from the camera, that would imply Rossy is 16 feet tall, which would imply he would make a hell of a lot more money playing pro basketball than flying his jet. Not that he couldn't do both. I'm just pointing out its staged. I would guess the photography plane is about 100 feet from the L39s and about 40 feet from Rossy? I would estimate the two planes are roughly "wingtip to wingtip" which is quite a bit closer to each other than they are to Rossy.
The other thing I don't get is the L-39C stalls right around 100 knots, from memory (you can fly it in x-plane flight simulator, but I haven't done so in probably 3 years). supposedly when Rossy floors it, he tops out around 180 knots. So ... I'm unimpressed than a plane that mins out at 100 kts can formation fly with a "plane" that maxes out at 180.
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Screaming PEW PEW PEW PEW the whole time you are flying
The man is simply and totally made of awesome.
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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.
I'd be a lot more proud of the guy if this demo was funded by someone who gives a shit about science.
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 happens to be wearing a Breitling watch.
I see from his biography that Rossy is a fighter pilot and aeronautical engineer who still flies commercially, so Breitling probably isn't his major backer. But still, the self-impressed, spendthrift 'gentleman' image he's shilling for with this flight disgusts me.
Oh, you means the vertical take-off ones that could only stay up for 30 seconds before running out of fuel? Yeah, that's the same.
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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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...
http://www.ted.com/talks/yves_rossy_fly_with_the_jetman.html
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I seriously hope if he's flying around jets like that that he doesn't have a superhero cape! ;)
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.
I got to know Yves back in the 90's when he spent some time hanging out here in Zermatt (pre Jet-man days, when he only was doing sky surfing on a scale jet model of the Mirage he used to fly for the Swiss Air Force). Very nice guy. Very intense + focused guy too!
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!
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B.A.S.E. XRW part two - http://vimeo.com/30623100
And this one is just plain cool. Great tune and slick video mix.
Spitfire Proximity - http://youtu.be/IZ9xoV6sUFc
(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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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 projects (e.g. , aerobatic squads, warbird restoration, Orbiter solar aircraft, etc). It owes much to aviation but repays it well in return.
It's not like if it was Cartier (or Budweiser) that was sponsoring Rossy.
PS: I don't wear any watch
Very cool but kinda looks like a scooter next to Harleys.
Huh. It really is Superman.
As an old biker, this gives a whole new meaning to "getting out in the wind", no? I'm eating my heart out.
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Hey don't mod down. In all kinds of motorsports, we rely on corporations, filthy rich dudes, and fanboys, who have...questionable money management skills to dump their cash into our sport. Let's give 'em all a hand guys! Yeah!!! :D
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Flaps down or not, this has gotta be one of the coolest things I've ever seen, period. My dreams of being a superhero are reborn!!!
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