Update on the flying cars! *We are EVEN CLOSER than yesterday*

[underpants]

5/14/08 report here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7734078&mesg_id=7734078


Rocket man stuns crowd with 180mph winged flight
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Rocket-man-stuns-crowd-with.4085197.jp

SOME people go fishing on their day off; Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure-of-eights above the Swiss Alps.

Mr Rossy, 48, made his first public flight in his self-made flying contraption yesterday, after five years of training and many more of dreaming.

"This flight was absolutely excellent," the former fighter pilot and extreme sports enthusiast said after touching down on an airfield near Lake Geneva.



Half an hour earlier, he had stepped out of an aircraft at 7,500ft, unfolded the rigid 8ft wings strapped to his back and dropped.
http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/7/15/71526e306f71c462d8bef445ca7dfc1f-med
Passing from freefall to a gentle glide, he then triggered four jet turbines and accelerated to 180mph, as a crowd below cheered.

His mother, Paule, told journalists she felt no fear. "He knows what he's doing," she said of her son, a pilot for Swiss airlines.

[joneschick]

1. I am Ironman. eom

[baby_mouse]

2. ???

I'm no aeronautics expert, but doesn't he need a tailplane? Why doesn't he stall?