Swiss-built Personal Wings Jet-Powers Man Into Air

I don't know how that guy lands that thing. It really looked like he was coming in fast and it's not like you can bend your knees and roll with that thing strapped to your back. It's pretty amazing that it works as well as it does.

I saw a brief report on this on CNN yesterday. The guy jumped from an airplane and flew for about five minutes according to the report. He landed via parachute once he ran out of fuel. But the video of him is astounding! Here is the link without audio on CNN.com:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2008/05/14/vo.swiss.rocket.man.ap?iref=videosearch

There is another, shorter report on CNN with audio by Anderson Cooper but less of the video.

Looks great.

The magazine "New Scientist" had an article about such machines, apparently they're not hard to design or build, the problem always comes back to making them safe enough to use. Imagine not being able to glide in to land if you ran out of fuel when a few hundred metres up.

The question I just have to ask: Where is the ejection seat?

kind Regards....

Landing is done with a parachute !!!

I saw a longer video of this last year sometime.

Pretty crazy!