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SPAIN - Swiss airline pilot Yves Rossy flies through the air over Spain at 185km/h wearing jet-powered carbon-fibre wings.
He jumped from a plane over Empuriabrava, glided to 2499m and then flew horizontally for four minutes. The former fighter pilot, who spent five years developing his rocket jacket, was driven along by tiny kerosene-fuelled engines.
Rossy landed by cutting the power, then coasting before using a parachute at the last minute. "It was absolutely fantastic, total freedom in three dimensions. So much speed and power, it's better than a bird," the 45-year-old said.
The photographs, taken on March 12, were posted by Rossy on his FusionMan project website as a build-up to his showing off his creation at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions next month.
