Jetpack? - check! Airplane? - check! Sanity? - whoops…

A daredevil inventor has made his first public flight with a pair of homemade jet-powered wings.
After five years of training and many more years of dreaming, Yves Rossy from Switzerland took to the skies, performing figure eights above the Swiss Alps.
The 48-year-old former fighter pilot and extreme sports enthusiast stepped out of a plane at […]

Hamburg - A320 nearly crashed during crosswind approach

Date: 1st March 2008
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