First Human Across England With Fly Like a Bird

Swiss adventurer, Yves Rossy, flew from France to England, Friday, with a jetpack mounted on his back, so he became the first person who crossed the English Channel in that way.

Rossy, a pilot who used to fly the Airbus aircraft, crossed the 35 mile wide strait between Calais and Dover is the speed of 200 kilometers per hour in 13 minutes, his spokesman said, Reuters reported.

When the white rock in Dover was, he opened a blue and yellow parachute and drifted down as the breeze to land in a field in England, where the people been waiting for.

“Everything is going perfectly,” he said later. “I showed that fly like a bird not an impossible thing.”

Rossy retrace the route the French aviator Louis Blériot, who became the first person to fly across the English Channel in a plane in 1909.

The most exciting moment

Swiss pilot to fly with jet engines drive four kerosene-fueled mounted on a wing on his back.

He lit a jet engine in a plane before jumping out at an altitude of more than 8000 feet (2400 meters) above the ground.

After going through a period of free fall, he opened his wings and fly above the water surface. With no control devices, the only way to change direction was like a bird, moving his head and back.

49-year-old man, who calls himself “Fusion Man”, told the BBC the most tense moment was when he jumped from the aircraft “because I have a lot of trouble at previous moments.”

But this time he made a perfect jump and immediately improve the way toward Dover Strait reefs.
Rossy usually flies a plane Airbus A-320 owned by Swiss between Zurich and the International Heatrow and he developed his own equipment was driven jet.

Wing, which spans eight feet long, made of carbon composite and weighs about 55 kilograms, including fuel.

Upcoming plans include flying over the Grand Canyon or the Great Gorge, with a take-off from a standing position on the surface of the ground and perform acrobatic movements.