Professional pilot Yves Rossy long sought to attain the feeling of freedom only possible through flight—and in order to make his dream a reality, he stepped outside the cockpit and took to the open skies with nothing but a 55 kg, four-engine inflatable wing strapped to his back. Since 2006, he has conducted winged flights over the Swiss Alps, the English Channel, and the Grand Canyon. As for Rossy’s apprentice Vincent Reffet, we first introduced you to the record-breaking base jumper with his now iconic base jump from the Burj Khalifa. Today, they consider Dubai to “provide the right environment and infrastructure to achieve their dreams of flying higher and faster.
Watch Rossy and Reffet take part in a twin flight across desert landscapes at an average speed of 200km/h, loop around the Burj Khalifa with an ascending speed of 180km/h and descending speed of 300km/h, in this astounding video just released by Crown Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum. If the Crown Prince is trying to convince us that Dubai is the place where even our wildest dreams can come true, we might just have to hand it to him—after he tells us where our jetpacks are of course.
