Fly with the Jetman

Jetman is a machine to fly like a birds.
It has no steering wheels and specific instruments and it is controlled by changing attitudes of body.
It was made by some simple equipments: a wing, a harness, four engines, two parachutes, an altitude instrument,  a clock and a safety lever.
They weights 55kg in total.
When he spins or is out of control, he pull the lever to remove the wing from his body.
It achieves 300km per hour when it is in top speed and it can keep flying for eight minutes.
Yves hit Jetman on 20 years ago when he do freefalling.
He thought that he wanted to keep flying without big machines and feeling of birds.
He dreams that to take off with Jetman like airplanes for the next.

Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman
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