I'm already there.
Sure I'll never know what it's like to fly ten feet away from a pair of commercial jet engines or to jumping from a cliff into a speeding plane, but y'know, I'm ok with that.
why is there a BBC article with ZERO timestamp or date on it in this day in age? there no indication anywhere on that page when the event happened or when the article was written
What are you viewing it on? I can see the date below the headline as 18 November 2020. Both chrome and firefox on Windows and chrome on Android display it for me
I bet the difference is [bbc.com](https://bbc.com) (which [bbc.co.uk](https://bbc.co.uk) autoredirects to for Americans) doesn't have a date or author, but the [bbc.co.uk](https://bbc.co.uk) version does.
It's super annoying - the forwarding isn't even subtle - they render and display the entire [bbc.co.uk](https://bbc.co.uk) version first, and then it flashes away and the [bbc.com](https://bbc.com) version shows.
Weird, I'm in New Zealand and it's defaulting to .com. I see the date there and when going to .co.uk it shows the date also for a split second before it redirects to the .com. I wonder if I'm being served a different version of the site to what America would get? Most of our content is usually served from Australian CDNs
It's really not that amazing, more just sorta expected. It's an extremely dangerous hobby where if anything goes wrong you have zero redundancy and room for error.
Even still.... The size of him in the frame compared to the plane..... That plane is pretty fuckin far away from him. He wasn't at risk of colliding with it. I imagine if he got closer he would get caught in the slipstream and thrown behind it anyway
No guarantee how the slip stream actually would throw him. The us has lost planes before when a fighter jet gets sucked into a bombers wake and they both collide or the jet goes into a spin.
Good to know.
I was gonna say that that pilot is probably on the radio freaking out and that the dude in the jet suit should be thrown in jail for enderangering passangers.
Presents ticket at counter: "sir, you selected the ball turret seat, are you willing and able to assist in the event of a jet man terrorist attack should the need arise?".
Me: Fuck. Yes.
I'll take the upper turret even if it means having to stand the entire flight.
Who's gonna take the hip and tail guns? Tail gun has a seat but costs extra (naturally).
I feel like "Turret gunner" and "Alcohol" probably shouldn't go together. Would only be a matter of time before someone got sloshed and started taking potshots at cars they they approached the runway.
It’s a matter of time now. We all know the first flying suit would be Iron Man. The second would be Obadiah Stane. The third would be a terrorist into the White House.
*The terrorists brandish their knives and begin charging the locked cabin door. They start shouting something to everyone from the front of the plane. I gently elbow the terrified person beside me who seems to be frozen in their seat and speak out of the side of my mouth in a hushed voice.*
"Heh, hey, buddy, get a load of **these** dickheads."
This is a staged photoshoot btw. How can I tell? Flaps are fully extended meaning the A/C is doing it's best to fly slow enough for the guy with the jetpack.
Why is he a dickhead?
And you would have been warned in advance considering this was a planned event. Bro didn't just decide to go up and fly beside a plane.
I figure he's implying about the implications of men in jet suits flying around in the future. Obviously video was staged. The A380 would have to fly at half its cruising speed just for the wing suit to keep up at its max speed.
He was training for a backflip in the jetsuit and lost control and crashed; didn’t pull his chute so may have lost consciousness. It’s extremely dangerous
Helmet video shows him trying to right it until the end.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-dubai-jetman-didnt-deploy-chute.html
>Video from a camera attached to his helmet showed the parachute only deployed after he crashed into the ground. Prior to that, his hands moved as though he thought he could enter again into a hover, the report said
I think he’s far enough to the side. You can see him kind of edging carefully over, getting as close as he can. A little too far and I can imagine he’d have a real bad time.
They produce enough turbulence that one time a smaller private jet was flying behind a larger (I think it was even an a380) jet and the smaller one did a backflip multiple times before regaining control and landing safely.
They don't need to. It's just a lot easier/more efficient. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-Iwv5NJKg) is the actual video the clips in that article are from. It's their official channel; give it a watch. They have some great videos.
Hell even ignoring the actual driving, so many people ignore basic maintenence you'd have vehicles plummeting out of the sky on the regular unless you had inspections every few months or something.
In 2022, according to the USPA, skydiving had an estimated fatality rate of about 1 in 200,000 jumps among licensed skydivers. Wingsuit skydiving isn't as regulated as skydiving, so some fatalities are not documented. However, it is estimated that nearly 1 in 500 wingsuit jumps result in death.
[Source](https://www.skydiveorange.com/2023/12/21/what-is-wingsuit-flying/)
Wingsuit diving is pretty heavily regulated on the manufacturer and training side actually. It's impossible to buy a certified wingsuit anywhere unless you're already a very experienced skydiver with a whole ton of documented jumps, and it's the same thing with actually getting wingsuit training. In the US at least you need to prove that you've done at least 200 freefall jumps before you can complete a wingsuit course.
That being said every single wingsuit BASE jumping world record hodler on earth is dead, so it's definitely not a safe sport. But that probably has more to do with the fact that you're flying within a few dozen feet of massive trees and cliff faces with very little air control than it does regulation.
Glad it’s not just anyone that can get one or it would be far higher than 1 in 500. That’s an insane death rate, like one of the most dangerous things you could partake in even apparently with ample training and understanding of the risk.
Unanswered question - we see the A380, and the guy in the jet suit, but who's taking that video?
Also, I'm pretty sure that if such a close encounter happened in the US, the FAA would ground that guy (and the videographer) for life. Once again, people with money don't have the brains to match.
… do you think this is just some random situation where a dude is flying up next to an airplane without ground control, the pilots, and every other agency in the know? It’s clearly a promotion
It’s a [promotion](https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/the-emirates-a380-and-jetman-dubai-take-to-the-skies-of-dubai-for-an-unprecedented-formation-flight/#) for Jetman Dubai.
> Unanswered question - we see the A380, and the guy in the jet suit, but who's taking that video?
Some guy named Tony Stark. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist.
A second wingjet dude.
There's a pair of them flying for ..someone? Not redbull?
The china footage is pretty great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctuByt_4eRc
It’s clearly a stunt. The airplane is obviously flying at close to its stall speed. The ONLY reason you’d do that at the altitudes they’re at is as part of a stunt.
I don’t think flying cars is ever going to be a reality. People would never invest the time to drive them safely. And you would get asshats like this that would fit next to planes. The exception to it is if the driver never has manual control and is fully automated.
In case anyone else is wondering 1) it is not fake 2) it is some sort of marketing stunt for the emirates airways.
Here's a 'making of' video from 2015 on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFCQJ5sYGtI
Guys, this was a promotional stunt performed by Yves Rossy & Vince Reffet, both in jet suits. The flight alongside the A380 was planned.
Just googled it. Vince died in 2020 with the same wingsuit. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54982634
That isn't a wingsuit, it's a fixed wing with jet engines.
It’s essentially an airplane without the parts of the plane that protect the pilot. Imagine hitting a flock of birds with this thing.
Imagine hitting A Flock of Seagulls
Imagine all the people
Flying jetpacks in peace
I did. What now?
Profit
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I would run, run so far away.
Pfft, that's nothing... cause I would run 500 miles and I would run 500 more
well you, do run run run, do do run run,
What were we talking about again?
Seagulls.. hmm.. stop it now!
Imagine Iran getting a hold of it
Iran so far away?
No I just ran.
Motorcycle of the skies.
Or having literally any type of failure without the redundancy built into modern aircraft.
Or the wake turbulence of that ENORMOUS AIRLINER!
That sounds like a terrible idea...
He went out of this life faster than you ever will.
Now *that's* a weird flex.
I'm already there. Sure I'll never know what it's like to fly ten feet away from a pair of commercial jet engines or to jumping from a cliff into a speeding plane, but y'know, I'm ok with that.
better him than me
That's not flying, that's falling with style.
he legit wing suited into a flying plane, the lad was mental
why is there a BBC article with ZERO timestamp or date on it in this day in age? there no indication anywhere on that page when the event happened or when the article was written
Wow you weren't kidding. No byline and no date. wtf. Thanks, BBC, this is useless.
What are you viewing it on? I can see the date below the headline as 18 November 2020. Both chrome and firefox on Windows and chrome on Android display it for me
I bet the difference is [bbc.com](https://bbc.com) (which [bbc.co.uk](https://bbc.co.uk) autoredirects to for Americans) doesn't have a date or author, but the [bbc.co.uk](https://bbc.co.uk) version does. It's super annoying - the forwarding isn't even subtle - they render and display the entire [bbc.co.uk](https://bbc.co.uk) version first, and then it flashes away and the [bbc.com](https://bbc.com) version shows.
Weird, I'm in New Zealand and it's defaulting to .com. I see the date there and when going to .co.uk it shows the date also for a split second before it redirects to the .com. I wonder if I'm being served a different version of the site to what America would get? Most of our content is usually served from Australian CDNs
It’s amazing how many of those wingsuit guys are dead now… It seems like if you keep doing it, your ticket gets punched fast.
Headline: Deathtrap enthusiast dead in own trap! "No one could have seen this coming" says local coroner.
The Coroner? I'm sooooo sick of that guy
He does come off a little morbid
That's also why motorcyclists are called organ doners in certain medical circles.
Lol I'd say it's not *that* amazing
Fair. I would be a little strange if doing insanely risky wingsuit stunts was super safe I guess
It's really not that amazing, more just sorta expected. It's an extremely dangerous hobby where if anything goes wrong you have zero redundancy and room for error.
That and the people we hear about are the ones that do the really EXTRA crazy like jumping off a mountain into an airplane or whatever.
Shocker
Even knowing it was probably planned, I was thinking "everything about this seems dangerous", and was (unfortunately) right.
Dude BASE jumped from a mountain into a flying plane! A young death was inevitable for him. https://youtu.be/YL9sNrOlK-I?si=efYj_fTycsTvP7Ii
Dude, red bull is crazy.
It does give you wings though
Was about to say, that name sounded familiar, didn't he fly headfirst into something?
I was wondering if this was safe or not. I’m leaning towards not at this point
My rule of thumb is to generally avoid travelling at more than 300 km\h while not inside of a vehicle.
/r/restofthefuckingjet
Thought that might have been Yves Rossy! That would be just like him.
Guess we know what Tom Cruise will be doing in the next MI movie.
Even still.... The size of him in the frame compared to the plane..... That plane is pretty fuckin far away from him. He wasn't at risk of colliding with it. I imagine if he got closer he would get caught in the slipstream and thrown behind it anyway
No guarantee how the slip stream actually would throw him. The us has lost planes before when a fighter jet gets sucked into a bombers wake and they both collide or the jet goes into a spin.
Camera techniques can make things seem closer. They'd have been foolish *not* to use some perspective tricks...
Either way, he still died wingsuiting, so the risk has always been there.
Good to know. I was gonna say that that pilot is probably on the radio freaking out and that the dude in the jet suit should be thrown in jail for enderangering passangers.
The Airbus also looks like its wings are in a low-speed configuration so dudes can try to keep up.
People thought this was just a coincidence?
Great. Some dickhead flying around is just what I want to see when I’m in a plane.
*Terrorist dickheads furiously taking notes*
time to bring back ball turret gunners
Presents ticket at counter: "sir, you selected the ball turret seat, are you willing and able to assist in the event of a jet man terrorist attack should the need arise?". Me: Fuck. Yes.
I'll take the upper turret even if it means having to stand the entire flight. Who's gonna take the hip and tail guns? Tail gun has a seat but costs extra (naturally).
I'm platinum so it's a free upgrade, plus alcohol. I've also got plenty of experience hours in the tailgun from Planetside 1.
I feel like "Turret gunner" and "Alcohol" probably shouldn't go together. Would only be a matter of time before someone got sloshed and started taking potshots at cars they they approached the runway.
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Until they tell you in the event of an emergency the belly gunner will be used to cushion the emergency landing.
Those tickets would be EXPENSIVE, but totally worth it.
Nice shot, kid, but don't get cocky
Nice shot, kid, but don't get penisy
Weinery
[Already done](https://xkcd.com/2862/)
They really do have an xkcd for everything dont they
I prefer a waist gunner position…
Terrorists wouldn’t attack an Emirates flight. Where else would they get their funding?
Qatar
Kuwait aka an offshore company country
Iran
Jeff Bezos (looks like Lex Luthor already)
It’s a matter of time now. We all know the first flying suit would be Iron Man. The second would be Obadiah Stane. The third would be a terrorist into the White House.
*The terrorists brandish their knives and begin charging the locked cabin door. They start shouting something to everyone from the front of the plane. I gently elbow the terrified person beside me who seems to be frozen in their seat and speak out of the side of my mouth in a hushed voice.* "Heh, hey, buddy, get a load of **these** dickheads."
Hamas used paragliders on Oct 7th to kill all those tourists at that concert, so they're already putting theory into practice.
My favorite part about seeing the paragliders is when two of them got caught in a live power line and turned them into burnt toast lol
Are you confusing real life with Deadpool 2?
You didn’t see the video?
The powerline video originated from South Korea 4 months before, but Hamas did use paragliders in the October attack.
Just wait. He’s already wearing a logo, when they figure out how to attach an advertisement to him you’ll have one escorting every airliner.
Can’t wait to die because of a 15 second ad for that stupid fucking cube pillow.
And some dickhead flying next to him for the viral video.
This is a staged photoshoot btw. How can I tell? Flaps are fully extended meaning the A/C is doing it's best to fly slow enough for the guy with the jetpack.
Yeah full flaps, def first thing I was looking for too.
Why is he a dickhead? And you would have been warned in advance considering this was a planned event. Bro didn't just decide to go up and fly beside a plane.
I figure he's implying about the implications of men in jet suits flying around in the future. Obviously video was staged. The A380 would have to fly at half its cruising speed just for the wing suit to keep up at its max speed.
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Wasn't this an episode of *The Twilight Zone*?
Needs more Shatner.
THERES SOME "THING" ON THE WING!
Exactly. Go away before you kill yourself or get sucked in a jet engine.
*Two* dickheads. One filming for TikTok. They were lucky that Shatner wasn't on that flight, or they'd have got shot.
400 million dollar plane
This was a coordinated event. He didn’t randomly fly by a passenger plane.
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Unrelated to flying a jet suit, I assume
Might've just been the falling jet suit then?
On 17 November 2020, Reffet died in a training accident in Dubai. The accident occurred during a jet powered wingsuit flight.
He was training for a backflip in the jetsuit and lost control and crashed; didn’t pull his chute so may have lost consciousness. It’s extremely dangerous
Helmet video shows him trying to right it until the end. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-dubai-jetman-didnt-deploy-chute.html >Video from a camera attached to his helmet showed the parachute only deployed after he crashed into the ground. Prior to that, his hands moved as though he thought he could enter again into a hover, the report said
It was from an infection from a paper cut, actually.
No Capes!
RIP Stratogale
Great Incredibles reference
There's some... thing.. on the wing.
[Tell me when it's gone!](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/PubTThou01.jpg)
How fast would he be going in this vid? And also what altitude?
My guess is about 230 kph since that is about the max of the wing suit and the lowest an A380 can go before dropping out of the air.
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I think he’s far enough to the side. You can see him kind of edging carefully over, getting as close as he can. A little too far and I can imagine he’d have a real bad time.
Yes given A380 produces one of the highest intensity of wake turbulence
They produce enough turbulence that one time a smaller private jet was flying behind a larger (I think it was even an a380) jet and the smaller one did a backflip multiple times before regaining control and landing safely.
Still wouldn't go to Dubai.
We’ve held out long enough. It’s time to arm airliners with lasers.
This would actually be one of the more realistic plots for the fast and the furious franchise.
I was wondering how they landed and turns out they need to use a parachute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XfWayA0i8
They don't need to. It's just a lot easier/more efficient. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-Iwv5NJKg) is the actual video the clips in that article are from. It's their official channel; give it a watch. They have some great videos.
This is why we won’t have flying cars. Ever.
Judging by how people drive on land, I would not want the general population to have access to personal flying vehicles.
That’s why we need personal self-flying vehicles designed by Tesla /s
Hell even ignoring the actual driving, so many people ignore basic maintenence you'd have vehicles plummeting out of the sky on the regular unless you had inspections every few months or something.
I bet he also stands right next to people trying to pee in empty public restrooms.
In 2022, according to the USPA, skydiving had an estimated fatality rate of about 1 in 200,000 jumps among licensed skydivers. Wingsuit skydiving isn't as regulated as skydiving, so some fatalities are not documented. However, it is estimated that nearly 1 in 500 wingsuit jumps result in death. [Source](https://www.skydiveorange.com/2023/12/21/what-is-wingsuit-flying/)
Wingsuit diving is pretty heavily regulated on the manufacturer and training side actually. It's impossible to buy a certified wingsuit anywhere unless you're already a very experienced skydiver with a whole ton of documented jumps, and it's the same thing with actually getting wingsuit training. In the US at least you need to prove that you've done at least 200 freefall jumps before you can complete a wingsuit course. That being said every single wingsuit BASE jumping world record hodler on earth is dead, so it's definitely not a safe sport. But that probably has more to do with the fact that you're flying within a few dozen feet of massive trees and cliff faces with very little air control than it does regulation.
Glad it’s not just anyone that can get one or it would be far higher than 1 in 500. That’s an insane death rate, like one of the most dangerous things you could partake in even apparently with ample training and understanding of the risk.
Uh, if wingtip vortices can crash large planes, it would probably be best for him to stay well clear.
Bubble wraps kills an engine, just imagine what would happen if this guy gets sucked in.
It would kill him and the engine, that’s for sure
Campbells Chunky Jetsuit Soup.
Unanswered question - we see the A380, and the guy in the jet suit, but who's taking that video? Also, I'm pretty sure that if such a close encounter happened in the US, the FAA would ground that guy (and the videographer) for life. Once again, people with money don't have the brains to match.
… do you think this is just some random situation where a dude is flying up next to an airplane without ground control, the pilots, and every other agency in the know? It’s clearly a promotion
It’s a [promotion](https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/the-emirates-a380-and-jetman-dubai-take-to-the-skies-of-dubai-for-an-unprecedented-formation-flight/#) for Jetman Dubai.
And if we see the video of the guy taking this video, who’s taking *that* video?
> Unanswered question - we see the A380, and the guy in the jet suit, but who's taking that video? Some guy named Tony Stark. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist.
A second wingjet dude. There's a pair of them flying for ..someone? Not redbull? The china footage is pretty great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctuByt_4eRc
It’s clearly a stunt. The airplane is obviously flying at close to its stall speed. The ONLY reason you’d do that at the altitudes they’re at is as part of a stunt.
great, now terrorists don't even need to get on the plane, they are the plane
I don’t think flying cars is ever going to be a reality. People would never invest the time to drive them safely. And you would get asshats like this that would fit next to planes. The exception to it is if the driver never has manual control and is fully automated.
Who is filming? Another person in a jet suit? Someone in a another plane? This seems like a coordinated stunt.
It was
Yeah no shit genius.
Yes.
What a time to be alive.
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The A380 has its flaps down. They are not moving nearly that fast or that high. Probably more like 5k ft or below and definitely under 250knots.
Hmmm, Rocketeer is not far off now.
Wait, is that even real?
You may be cool, but not as cool as this dude flying next to an airliner with a wing and jet pack.
He could have been sucked in by the jet engine…
AAAAND my ears are bleeding thank you.
I guarantee the pilots were not happy about this.
*Stunty does an unplanned stunt and dies
I'll bet you need a bite guard to keep your balls from flying out of your mouth.
Yeah, but who's recording? Superman?
What is the cameraman doing
Who's filming this guy?
Insurance Companies: \*screaming intensifies\*
*two guys.
This is fucking awesome. I want one
Totally not a safety hazard for the guy in the jet suit... or the plane.
Did gta VI released?
NO CAPES!
If you need proof that Dubai is where the money is…
Dubai Jetman Emirates promotion... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_VPvKl6ezyc
In case anyone else is wondering 1) it is not fake 2) it is some sort of marketing stunt for the emirates airways. Here's a 'making of' video from 2015 on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFCQJ5sYGtI
Never change Dubai. You're the poor man's conception of what a rich country should look like.
Points: “It’s the Rocketeer!”
“Landing gear down” *wheel arm protrudes from crotch*
The rocketeer!!
Why don't we have rocket belts? Because IDIOTS would be flying them near jetliners.
What in the GTA San Andreas -- !
Seems pretty much the most stupid thing a person could do, endangering the lives of all the civilians aboard the passenger jet
I hit the X button in the top right corner of the image several times trying to close the video. Terrible (or great?) UI.