Watch These Jetmen Fly Wing-to-Wing With an Airbus A380 Above Dubai

Stay out of the wake and away from those big air suckers under the wings too!

Brief 'Making Of'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFCQJ5sYGtI
So, these guys didn't just say "Hey, lets chase that 380"
Seems a little more thought went into it.

Now there's a publicity stunt that'll be hard to top :D

If it helps, there is a trick in photography where you use a long lens (over 400mm) and the longer the lens the flatter the items in the image looks. In reality they were close from an aircraft perspective but the long lens made it look a lot closer. My $.02 as a semi pro photographer and air enthusiast.

Look at all the fun things you can do wihout the FAA in the way :)

Bet DARPA is trying to arm the damn thing.

Wake turbulence? Anybody remember the XB-70 accident? Wow.

A daring feat very well captured on camera & good editing too :-)

I con think of so many ways that that could have ended badly. <shudder>

Me parece buena la idea ya será un vuelo directo
Serán 17 horas de vuelo pero estoy seguro que pensarán a todas las comodidades.

Remember the 1930's craze wing walking?
What I don't understand is the Emeriates connection.

This is a great movie. The jetmen were flying well out of the Airbus wingtip vertices and far from the engine intakes. I'm sure that it was well coordinated with safety being paramount both in their briefing and execution. Wish I would be able to do that; both flying the jet pack and the Airbus.

Thanks Scott, if you are right, then it was fairly sfe I guess. Anyway I'll never fly that airline!!!

How many minutes of powered flight do these jetpacs have?

Good points all, but the apparent GoPro video with its wide angle lens shot from a Jetman mounted camera looked pretty close. Would love to know what kind of chase plane/camera set up took the other footage.

That's the most thrilling vid I've watched on YouTube for a long time. WILD!!!

Incredible

I agree with Scott Sawyer.

Really shows some of the amazing things that man is capable of.

That is the most beautiful thing I've seen today and it is the end of the day.

Great Stuff

Es demasiado peligroso el vuelo tan cercano de las aeronaves. A la velocidad que se desplazan, cualquier error minimo de cualquiera de los pilotos puede causar una tragedia

Good thing they didn't get caught in an engine!

BOYCOTT DUBAI NOW !!! Land of slave labor

What ever happened to wing tip vortices? :)

I know both Yves and his apprentice Vince personally. Their home base is the small aerodrome of Bex (LSGB) in Switzerland. They do their practice flights out of a Pilatus Porter. This happens to be my home base as well when I'm in Switzerland. Here are some pictures I took of them.

http://flightaware.com/photos/airport/LSGB

I get the size difference but I'd rather see this with the 777. The 380 is so ugly...

Hope that this does not motivate the dark forces to an unbelievable kind of hijacking...

Very very stupid stunt. Entertaining to the general public,damaging to the aviation community. They hope to sell a jet pack or two, at the expense of you know who. Emirates just want to take over the world. They don't have a clue either.

A Very Stupid Feat!!!!!...One mistake and BOOOMMMM!..idiotic to say the least.

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The Emirates A380 and Jetman Dubai take to the skies of Dubai for an unprecedented formation flight

The Emirates A380 and the Jetman Dubai duo recently took to the skies of Dubai for an extraordinary formation flight which showcased just how far aviation has come. The formations were conducted over the Palm Jumeirah and Dubai skyline with Burj Khalifa in the background.

http://www.emirates.com/ae/english/about/media-centre/2775540/the-emirates-a380-and-jetman-dubai-take-to-the-skies-of-dubai-for-an-unprecedented-formation-flight

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Two guys wearing jetpacks fly alongside an Airbus A380

So far, we saw ex-fighter pilot Yves Rossy — a.k.a. Jetman — fly his jet-propelled wing in formation with another pilot, and we saw him whizz around Dubai's Burj Khalifa in glorious 4K resolution.

His latest stunt, however, again performed with parachuter Vince Reffet, is perhaps the most impressive so far. The two pilots fly their jetpacks in formation with an Emirates-owned Airbus A380.

http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/jetman-airbus-a380/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link