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By Nick Enoch | 11:56 GMT, 26 June 2012 | The Daily Mail
It could almost have been a scene from a superhero film... but what Yves Rossy did involved no special effects.
The Swiss daredevil - known as 'Jetman' - stunned passengers in a vintage plane by flying alongside them at 128mph
for seven minutes, powered by his his amazing jet-propelled wing.
And although the 53-year-old is no stranger to such death-defying feats, this was the first time he had ever flown next
to a passenger aircraft - in this case, a 1940s' Breitling Douglas DC-3 over Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
For his latest stunt, which took place last Friday, he was first dropped by a helicopter from an altitude of 6,000ft.
During his descent, the ex-Swiss International Airlines captain stabilised himself with his rigid carbon Kevlar backpack -
the four-engined jet 'wing' he employs as if it were part of his body.
He then flew in close formation at 4,500ft at eye level with the twin-propeller aircraft's occupants.
When the stuntman's fuel ran out, he safely parachuted to the ground at Buochs airport.
By Nick Enoch | 11:56 GMT, 26 June 2012 | The Daily Mail
It could almost have been a scene from a superhero film... but what Yves Rossy did involved no special effects.
The Swiss daredevil - known as 'Jetman' - stunned passengers in a vintage plane by flying alongside them at 128mph
for seven minutes, powered by his his amazing jet-propelled wing.
And although the 53-year-old is no stranger to such death-defying feats, this was the first time he had ever flown next
to a passenger aircraft - in this case, a 1940s' Breitling Douglas DC-3 over Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
For his latest stunt, which took place last Friday, he was first dropped by a helicopter from an altitude of 6,000ft.
During his descent, the ex-Swiss International Airlines captain stabilised himself with his rigid carbon Kevlar backpack -
the four-engined jet 'wing' he employs as if it were part of his body.
He then flew in close formation at 4,500ft at eye level with the twin-propeller aircraft's occupants.
When the stuntman's fuel ran out, he safely parachuted to the ground at Buochs airport.
