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It's not a plane, It's Fusion Man!!! Footage Inside
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"A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.
Yves Rossy's performance in front of the world press capped five years of training and many more years of dreaming.
"This flight was absolutely excellent," the former fighter pilot and extreme sports enthusiast said after touching down on an airfield near the eastern shore of Lake Geneva.
Rossy, 48, had stepped out of the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter aircraft at 7,500 feet and unfolded the rigid eight-foot wings strapped to his back before jumping.
Passing from free fall to a gentle glide, Rossy then triggered four jet turbines and accelerated to 186 miles per hour, about 65 miles per hour faster than the typical falling skydiver. A plane that flew at some distance beside him measured his speed.
The crowd on the mountaintop below gasped and cheered..." Yes. ... more -
Celebrity gossip site creates anti-paparazzi mask
Holy Moly, one of Britain's most popular and vitriolic celebrity gossip sites, has turned on paparazzi who snap famous folk "using aggression or by overwhelming people" and created an anti-paparazzi mask for off-duty celebs.
In the weekly Holy Moly mailout, Mr Holy Moly, the site's founding anonymous acerbic celebrity blogger, addressed the world's celebrities directly, saying:
"Now - you celebrities. I still hate you, but let's assume for one second that you, as you often point out (yes, you Sienna), don't want to be photographed when not 'on duty'. OK.
"I am having 2000 of these printed up and next week I'll post them every major agent and PR in London and LA.
"If you don't want to be photographed, wear one.
"If you don't wear one, well f*ck you, you had a choice." Holy Moly, one of Britain's most popular and vitriolic celebrity gossip sites, has turned on paparazzi who snap famous folk "... more
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