What a great invention, must be an incredible rush. I'd be interested in seeing the controls. Coming over the top of the mountains in the area he was in didn't leave much room for error. Put a heads up GPS and an MP3 player in the helmet and you got something. [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]
Ed [smiley=pepper.gif]
Below is the article in English or close to.
"2006 : a rival for Batman
Obsessed by the myth of Icaris the men tried to fly like birds; failing to reach that point, of the pioneers machines built flying in which they were locked up to control them.
Mû by the desire to always be a bird the man developed, these last decades, of the apparatuses allowing him to fly while benefiting from ascending currents as in the hang glider and parapet, or gliding flight going down with winged combinations or small rigid wings on back.
However nobody is not unaware of that since 1939, human really could to fly while springing and while moving in the airs at will: its name is BATMAN hero of comic strips whose creator is Bob Kane.
Today, Batman can leave his page of paper and the movie screens to fly over the Alps Suisses, thanks to Yves Rossy who carried out the great dream of Léonard De Vinci.
In the line of its many predecessors flying men, this Switzerland impassioned of flight since always, after having flown on Mirage III with the army, then as commander on Airbus, not only designed and developed wings which enable him to fly, but it also built them and tested during these seven last years.
Finally since the last autumn, the dream became reality thanks to four mini-engines assembled under its wings, which propel it to more than 200 km/h to the attack of the tops. During the flight, the body of Yves becomes that of a bird, and except a handle of the gazs, it does not control its wing, but STEALS it truly, thanks to some light movements of its body, very as the birds do it.
And like Batman, when it flies beside planes which accompany it, when it puts the gazs, the latter can only look at it disappearing in the azure…
The main thing is made, but there remain some stages to be crossed until takeoff, the lifting figures, the vertical rises and the participation in the next air demonstrations.
Yves is not very proud to have arrived only and with the assistance of his friends, with this decisive goal that everyone judged unrealistic. For the next stages, it will need partners and support, which should not miss, taking into account the interest and of the enormous potential of the project."
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