Yves Rossy
Yves Rossy
Yves Rossyis a Swiss military-trained pilot and an aviation enthusiast. He is known as the inventor of a series of experimental individual jet packs, the latest using carbon-fiber wings for flight. Often referred to as "Jetman", Rossy has sometimes tested and presented new versions of his jet packs in high profile events staged around the world...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth27 August 1959
CountrySwitzerland
technology bird sometimes
I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.
design
I was always pretty good at designing things.
dream men wings
Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.
dark light blue
When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
bird littles aviation
I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
blue clouds connected fighter gray hole instead jet layer shoot totally vertical
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
cook good
As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.