Swiss military-trained pilot and an aviation enthusiast
Yves Rossy
Born
(1959-08-27) 27 August 1959 (age 64)
Neuchâtel
Nationality
Swiss
Known for
First person to fly a jet engine-powered wing
Aviation career
Full name
Yves Rossy
Air force
Swiss Air Force
Website
yvesrossy.com
Yves Rossy (born 27 August 1959) is 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 jetpacks in high-profile events staged around the world.
YvesRossy (born 27 August 1959) is a Swiss military-trained pilot and an aviation enthusiast. He is known as the inventor of a series of experimental...
steering controls, no flaps, no rudder. Yves uses his body to steer the wing. He's acting as a human fuselage "YvesRossy, "Jet Man", l'home a reacció". TV3...
sources describe him as having been a "protégé of well-known jet daredevil YvesRossy" who also used a "four-engine, carbon-Kevlar wing strapped to their backs"...
from the original on 30 January 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017. "'Jetman' YvesRossy Shows Us How to Fly His Carbon Fiber Jet Wing". Wired. 31 July 2013. Archived...
globe by balloon (Breitling Orbiter); the fixed-wing jet pack flights of YvesRossy; aerobatics teams, including the Breitling Jet Team and Breitling Wingwalkers;...
maker Saab • Rally-spec Škoda vs jet-powered flying man Matt Smith • YvesRossy • Toni Gardemeister 26 February 2012 (2012-02-26) 6.12 As a final tribute...
of North Korea nicknamed "Rocket Man" by then-President Donald Trump YvesRossy (born 1959), Swiss aviator and inventor of a fixed-wing jet pack Ryo Fukawa...
jetwings, and it was broadcast live worldwide on television. Swiss pilot YvesRossy, the person who had accepted the Webtel.mobi Intercontinental Challenge...
Sentai television series. Jetman, nickname for Swiss inventor and aviator YvesRossy This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jetman...
made by wingsuit flyers to sustain altitude, but the most successful was YvesRossy who jumped out of an airplane wearing airplane-type rigid wings with four...
piloted the first aeroplane to cross in 1909. On 26 September 2008, Swiss YvesRossy aka Jetman became the first person to cross the English Channel with a...
of the Gambia killing more than 1,000. 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor YvesRossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English...
and a carbon fibre wing 26 September 2008 First crossing with a jetpack YvesRossy (Switzerland) Crossing completed in less than ten minutes 6 August 2009...
(born 1958), psychiatrist, balloonist, founder and pilot of Solar Impulse YvesRossy (born 1959), pilot, "jet-man" Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931), balloonist...
ground. In 2011, he was developing a jet wing similar to that used by YvesRossy. Hartman began his work in aviation as a cadet at the United States Air...
rally driver Toni Gardemeister race the world's first jet propelled man, YvesRossy, in a Škoda Fabia S2000 around an eight-mile special Welsh Rally Stage...
Rosling How not to be ignorant about the world (TEDSalon Berlin 2014) YvesRossy Fly with the Jetman (TEDGlobal 2011) Mark Roth Suspended animation is...
American B-25 Mitchell Spitfire (BBMF) Tornado GR4 Westland Dragonfly YvesRossy (Jetman) BAe Nimrod - The last ever display appearance of the Nimrod MRA4...
of Experimental Test Pilots. May 2009. p. 4. Retrieved August 9, 2022. YvesRossy (M) "X-15 Biographies: Robert A. Rushworth". NASA. Retrieved August 9...
impressionist George Mitsikostas. Ververelis performed together with the JetMan YvesRossy, Vince Reffet, Fred Fugen and the Pegasus Apatsi Team in joint flight...
helicopter at an altitude of 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) over Calais, France, YvesRossy crosses the English Channel with a single jet-powered wing strapped on...
Retrieved March 1, 2015. Kleiner, Dick (March 25, 1965). "Katherine, or a Rossy Future". Times Daily. Retrieved August 12, 2010. Champlin, Charles (January...