Although the Vice President`s staff warned the media the blast from the plane could knock them off the platform they decided to stay put for the best shot possible.
Swiss “Rocket Man” Yves Rossy becomes the first person in the world to fly with wings under rocket power.
Rossy was the test pilot on May 14, 2008, in a successful 6-minute flight from the town of Bex near Lake Geneva. He exited a Pilatus Porter at 7,500 feet with jet engines and a folded 8-foot pair of airplane-type wings strapped to his back. It was the first public demonstration before the world’s press. He made effortless loops from one side of the Rhone valley to the other and rose 2,600 feet. Rossy, his sponsors, and the Swiss watch company Hublot, spent $285,000 to build the device.
One small airplane ended up on top of another Thursday in a collision at Northwest Regional Airport, about 20 miles northeast of Fort Worth. Nobody was seriously hurt in the accident as one plane apparently tried to land as the other was taking off from the airport near Texas Motor Speedway, KXAS-TV reported.
Northwest Regional Airport, on its Web site, bills itself as the largest privately-owned airport in America, with more than 550 planes. There is no control tower. Pilots using the airport are required to transmit their locations over a certain radio frequency. The weather in the area Thursday was partly cloudy with light winds.
One guy flew from Almati to Kiev on one Ukrainian carrier, had decided to bring a camera with inside a plane. What he found inside was a plane held together by duck tape…
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