Another day, another jet-powered backpack flight over the Alps

CNN/AP has video of the first flight of Yves “Fusion Man” Rossy and his winged, jet-powered backpack. Rossy tips out of a small airplane and ignites the four thrusters, hitting speeds of up to 186 MPH before deploying a parachute and landing gently back at the local airfield.

‘Fusion Man’ soars above Swiss Alps [CNN]

1. [License Farm]

   Centurions: POWER EXTREME!

2. [stratosfyr]

   I was just having a conversation earlier today about how plausibly near-future “Iron Man” was.

   I’ll totally settle for Mach-IV instead.

3. [Rob Beschizza]

   When I was a child, the first time I heard that I thought they were shouting “POWER EXCRETE!”

4. [Anonymous]

   I’d like to see him take off from the ground via skateboard. I wonder if he could get enough altitude to parachute back down.