Rocket man flies on jet-powered wings
                   
msn.com: Image: Yves Rossy with jet-powered wings msn.com
msn.com     May 14, 2008            

BEX, Switzerland - Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. Half an hour earlier Rossy had stepped out of the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter aircraft at 7,500 feet, unfolded the rigid 8-foot wings strapped to his... [read full story]                

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