Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot and aviation enthusiast, and his protege, Vincent Reffet, went up, up, up and away — all to race a bonafide super jumbo jet, Superman-style.
In collaboration with Emirates Airlines, the duo (dubbed the Jetman Dubai team) was dropped from a helicopter flying above an Emirates A380 with jetpacks trapped to their backs and completed their airborne formation patterns over the city of Dubai and the Palm Jumierah, an artificially-constructed archipelago in the shape of — you guessed it — a palm tree. In a video taken of the daredevilish spectacle, both Reffet and Rossy can be seen racing alongside the A380 — considered the world's largest passenger aircraft — which flew with two holding patterns at 4,000 feet.
This isn't the first time Team Jetman Dubai has executed a flight-bound spectacle like this; another location-based stunt performed by Rossy (sans Reffet) includes flying over the Grand Canyon in May 2011.
While the Jetman Dubai's stunt is certainly impressive, it wasn't necessarily an altruistic venture. The footage of its high-in-the-sky antics was recorded specifically for an Emirates Airlines commercial — hence the collaboration — but just because Rossy and Reffet's feat was meant for a marketing campaign doesn't make it any less awe-inducing.
Check out Rossy and Reffet taking flight in the video below.
Via: The Verge
