Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s some viral marketing!
This crazy video features French Yves Rossy, a “Jetman” and his daredevil apprentice Vince Reffet. Rossy is no foreigner to crazy jetpack feats, he flew over the Grand Canyon on a jetpack four years ago and has beforehand been seen flying around the skies of Dubai.
This video, was taken by four small aircraft on the dawn of October 13, is a partnership between XDubai and Emirates airlines. It displays two guys, attached to a kevlar arm and four engines, flying with an Emirates A380 airplane – a commercial plane also known as the superjumbo jet. The Jetman website quoted, these jetpacks weigh just 40 kilograms (88 pounds) and can fly at up to 314 kilometers per hour (195 mph). The pair, both skilled pilots, was deployed at 1,676 meters (5,500 feet) by a helicopter and unconfined a parachute to safely return to the ground.
"While the formation airlift looked effortless on film, meticulous planning and meticulous collaboration with an intense focus on safety drove all efforts," Rossy and Reffet said on their website.
You can visit and view the stunt in the video below, or check out the behind-the-scenes here.
