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The miracle of human flight is starting to look a lot like Iron Man. Swiss military pilot Yves "Jetman" Rossy is a jetpack stunt pioneer, having flown in formation with an Emirates A380 airliner over Dubai and plied the air above Rio de Janeiro.
In a new teaser-trailer for the documentary LOFT: The Jetman Story, Rossy and his accomplices Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet perform the death-defying feat of launching the first jetpack flight from a ground-based platform. Their launchpad is perched on the side of a mountain, which makes it more perilous than lifting off from the actual ground. In the clip, the trio basically dives off the edge of a cliff before weaving through some Norwegian Fjords at a lightning quick pace.
What the group manages to achieve is something closer to a BASE jump than what's been performed in the past. Per the teaser, the film looks to gauge the psychology behind strapping on a jetpack and letting gravity and engine thrust do the rest. "Here I have nothing else than air," Rossy says in the trailer. "There is no before, no after. You are totally in the present."
Rossy's mission is to basically help the human species achieve personal autonomous flight, and it looks like LOFT will provide an intriguing lens into his world when it releases.
The documentary currently doesn't have a release date, so you'll have to salivate over the stunning visuals in the trailer until it debuts: