Like A Jet-Powered Bird

May 15, 2008 16:24


Originally published at Durosia.com. You can comment here or there.

The other day, Yves Rossy took to the skies in Switzerland with a winged backpack loaded with four mini-jet engines.

He swooped and soared for a handful of minutes before cutting the engines and pulling the cord on his parachute and drifting to the ground.

It's pretty awesome, if I ( Read more... )

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dv8dragonfly May 16 2008, 12:07:59 UTC
My coworker called me over to his desk to show me that news article, and said EXACTLY the same thing.

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american_arcane May 16 2008, 16:17:41 UTC
Awesome. :)

I knew I couldn't be the only one!

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