Remember when you were a kid, and you dreamed of one day winning the lottery in order to build a concrete reinforced dungeon so you could imprison the bullies that always picked on you? No? Ok. Well remember when you dreamed of flying? Yves Rossy, a.k.a. “Fusion Man”, has turned that childhood dream into a raw-powered, volatile reality.

Known as Switzerland’s “Fusion Man,” Rossy in November 2006 became the first man in the world to fly with wings and four jet engines strapped to his body; on Wednesday he displayed that talent to the world.

The inaugural flight lasted six minutes in Bex, Switzerland, and included an emergency parachute programmed to automatically open if he were to black out, NBC11 reported at the time. “The idea is to have fun, not to kill yourself,” Rossy said in the story.

Of course. Because dreams that result in death are unnerving. So how does it work?

Steering only with his body, Rossy dived, turned and soared again, flying what appeared to be effortless loops from one side of the Rhone valley to the other. At times he rose 2,600 feet before descending again.

“It’s like a second skin,” he later told reporters. “If I turn to the left, I fly left. If I nudge to the right, I go right.”

Rossy then performed a stunt he had never before tried.

After one last wave to the crowd, the rocket man tipped his wings, flipped onto his back and leveled out again, executing a perfect 360-degree roll that even a bird would find impossible.

“That was to impress the girls,” he later admitted.

And later that night he was visited by “Fusian Man Groupies” who wanted to know how his jets really thrust. Lalalalala. Video that’s longer than three minutes below.

Swiss ‘Fusion Man’ Flies Over the Alps With Jet-Propelled Wings [Fox News]
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