{"id":142,"date":"2008-05-16T00:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T04:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-05-16T00:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T04:56:56","slug":"yves-rossys-jet-pack-flight-over-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/16\/yves-rossys-jet-pack-flight-over-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Yves Rossy&#8217;s Jet Pack flight over Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kMYFW4ExPeo&amp;hl=en\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kMYFW4ExPeo&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">Not unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2008\/01\/25\/twin-turbo-jet-pack-from-german-aerospace-companies\/\">German jetpacks<\/a> I posted about back in January, this is a video of a real-life Rocketeer &#8211; Yves Rossy. He reached a speed of 186 mph during this flight over Bex in Switzerland. And his arms weren&#8217;t even tired.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The wings he&#8217;s wearing here use jet turbine engines and he steers by shifting his body, and yes, this <em>is<\/em> what I want for my birthday. Though I&#8217;d pick another soundtrack&#8230; Nat Gonella&#8217;s <em>It&#8217;s a Pair of Wings for Me<\/em> would do nicely, thanks.<\/p>\n[tags]jet pack, jet pack, yves rossy, flying wing, rocket pack, rocketeer, rocket man[\/tags]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not unlike the German jetpacks I posted about back in January, this is a video of a real-life Rocketeer &#8211; Yves Rossy. He reached a speed of 186 mph during this flight over Bex in Switzerland. And his arms weren&#8217;t even tired. The wings he&#8217;s wearing here use jet turbine engines and he steers by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}