Dubai: Two daredevils with jet packs are reported to have soared over the skyscrapers of Dubai at a speed of 125mph. The performers of these adventurous feat were former Swiss fighter pilot Yves Rossy, popularly known as the Jet man, and his French protégé Vince Reffett. Their heart-stopping tactical operations in the sky above the dazzling United Arab Emirates city were filmed in a very fantastic manner.
The two aviation enthusiasts could be seen flying over some of the city’s most famous landmarks including the giant Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the tallest man-made structure in the world.
The were flying in formation over the city’s Palm Islands after being wonderfully dropped out of a helicopter over the desert.
Wearing protective suits and helmets, they were performing their adventure within feet of each other at times and even performed loop the loops tactics by flying upside down. In the commentary for the sensational event, they had described the Dubai city as their ‘crazy playground’.
It was not the first time that Rossy had taken to the sky with his jet-powered wings to showcase some incredible aerial gymnastics.
Once earlier, he was filmed at a height of 5,000 feet above the Dubai desert. At that time he had an incredible formation flight with aerobatics champion Veres Zoltán at a speed of 120mph
A spokesman for Jet-man told that the flight video was an appetizer for ‘something bigger and louder’ to be expected later in 2015. But he refused to clarify or reveal anything more regarding that.
According to the website of Jet man, he became the first and the only man in the history of aviation to fly with a jet-propelled wing in 2006.
Rossy was first a military pilot and then worked as a captain on commercial flights. His website says that he has always dedicated all his free time for adventurous flights and experimented with all its forms’, creating a support with expansive wing panels that he subsequently developed into a rigid wing with four engines.
He has completed flights over the Alps ranges in Switzerland and also over the Geneva Lake in 2002. In 2008, he has crossed the English Channel in the flight path of Louis Blériot.
His invention has now been refined, so ‘all he has is an altimeter for safety, and a tiny accelerator control device in his hand’.
He has flown next to a 1940s’ Breitling Douglas DC-3 over Lake Lucerne in Switzerland in 2012.
Previously, Jet-man’ Rossy was flown fighter jets for the Swiss air force for 17 years.
He had also soared over the Grand Canyon for eight minutes. His custom built flight suit weighs almost 55kg and has a length of two meters.

Video on the flight of daredevils over Dubai city and desert