'Jet people' fly over giant canyons

Yves Rossy, the inventor dubbed the "jet man", successfully flew the flight above the Grand Canyon in the US thanks to his special wings.

Yves Rossy flies above the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA with speed
about 300 km / h on May 10. Photo: Popular Science.

The flight was conducted on the morning of May 10. A helicopter took Rossy and his jet wings to a height of 24 km above the bottom of the canyon. At this altitude he dances in a reclining posture. Rossy fell free before launching the wings. The four jet engines helped him win the gravitational pull of the earth and maintain a state of hovering in the air. Rossy reached a speed of about 300 km / h above the mountain cliffs before sprung the umbrella and landed safely, Popular Science said.

Yves Rossy, 52, and a Swiss citizen, served as a military pilot before becoming an inventor. Dreaming of being the first person in the world to fly like a bird, he spent a lot of time and money making jet wings. His latest wing version is made of carbon fiber and equipped with four jet engines from the German Jet Cat company. The length of the wings is 2.5 m. The cost for them is up to 285,000 USD.

In 2008 Rossy successfully conducted a flight across the Alps in Switzerland. The former pilot who flew across the English Channel, but failed to try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar in 2009. He made an impressive performance in Switzerland last November.

Hundreds of people once built wings into their bodies hoping to fly like birds. Only during the period from 1930 to 1961, 72 people were killed by flight tests. Most recently, a French paratrooper named Patrick De Gayardon died when testing new wings in Hawaii, USA. Rossy used to work with De Gayardon in the process of creating a jet wing.