Man Flies on Jetpack Over Swiss Town

By Alec B.  

Nov, 5th 2010, Bercher, Switzerland

A man, with the help of four Breitling engines, has successfully flown a jetpack. The jetpack, straight out of Hollywood movies like Thunderball (and who can forget the bounty hunter, Boba Fett?) has come off the big screen into real life. Swiss fusion engine scientist, Yves Rossy tried his prototype jetpack in civilian airspace. His training vastly differs from the risks; spending six years in the Swiss Air Force and another four for Swiss Airlines definitely gave him thumbs up from the locals and the Swiss government. His test worked wonderfully; he spent just over an hour and a half flying around the town and doing some 360 loops, making him look like he was having another day on a 4-engine fixed wing jetpack, over 8000 feet above the earth. As he came down in a parachute (the jetpack itself is still unable to stabilize a descent), he landed with precision and said he wanted to -go right back up. Even though strapped to four fusion engines that could blow him right out of the sky, several nations including China, Germany, and the United States want him to develop these jetpacks for use within the next twenty years. He said “to develop these things for weapons use is not what should be intended. This is travel for the future, not war of the future.”