Comments on: Traffic is a Swiss guy on short final

Traffic is a Swiss guy on short final

tss — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:49:43 -0800

Jet-Man Project. Man straps on composite wings and tiny jet engines. From AVweb.

By: substrate

substrate — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:04:09 -0800

Woah. That's seriously cool. Now that's falling with style.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:10:41 -0800

Very cool. And very insane, IMHO, but the world could use a few more loonies like this guy.

By: Verdant

Verdant — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:45:38 -0800

Lawyers from Acme Corporation of America are already filing a trademark infringement suit on behalf of their client's valuable "Flying Man-Bat Suit" property. Fictional litigation aside, that's amazing.

By: Elvis

Elvis — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:06:29 -0800

Very, very, cool. I seem to recall the French doing a lot of this sort of thing, including one Frenchman who used a special suit to make the worlds fastest freefall, well exceeding 200 mph straight down. I wasn't able to find anything on a quck Google of this, however.

By: anathema

anathema — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:16:17 -0800

Scary fun. Great post.

By: skyscraper

skyscraper — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:09:46 -0800

Yves greets the first 50 people he sees after the flight by saying "Hello, I'm not dead."

By: moonbird

moonbird — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:18:37 -0800

entirely fun in a vicarious sort of way. great post.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:58:15 -0800

the world could use a few more loonies like this guy. Eilmer of Malmesbury

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:50:59 -0800

:-)

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:18:38 -0800

Sweeeet. Thanks for the post! substrate , good quote, geek. :)

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:52:22 -0800

Eilmer of Malmesbury All these guys. (John Damian was the first I heard about, during a visit to Scotland.) Anyway, why even bother to leave the ground?