Rocket Man

A Swiss airline pilot, known as the Rocket Man, has now moved closer to becoming the first man to fly across the English Channel using a jet-powered backpack.

It was all a dream for Mr. Rossy until he made that dream a reality, but it has taken four incredible years for his design of a jet to make this dream a possibility. It was always his dream to fly like a bird and now that has become real he can only expand his ambition. When he was 30 he began learning how to freefall parachute jumping, he then went on to complete 1,200 freefall jumps.

When he first began his flying man project he was a Airline Captain with a commercial company, he strapped a pair of stubby wings and jumped out of an aircraft, freefalling for the loss of 1000ft in altitude
Mr. Rossy went on to make his jet even bigger by making the wings to 8ft using various metals, fiberglass, Kevlar and carbon fiber which then is strapped to his back. Read more