How confident do you have to be in your skills to step out of a plane ...

[YankeyMCC]

using a 'homemade' jetpack?

This guy's pretty damn confident in himself :)


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A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.
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Rossy, 48, had stepped out of the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter aircraft at 7,500 feet and unfolded the rigid eight-foot wings strapped to his back before jumping.
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After one last wave to the crowd the rocket man tipped his wings, flipped onto his back and leveled out again, executing a perfect 360-degree roll.

"That was to impress the girls," he later admitted.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_rocket_man;_ylt=Alp2KM6q16lDL7x0uzFIMxxbbBAF