PhotoBlog - jet-propelled-wing-suit

May

2011

5:15pm, EDT

Matt York / AP

Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy pretends to leap into the Grand Canyon from Guano Point on the Hualapai Indian Reservation Friday, May 6. Rossy canceled first US flight in a custom built jet suit due to safety concerns. The Federal Aviation Administration earlier Friday had approved plans for the 51-year-old adventurer to use the Grand Canyon as a backdrop for his first U.S. flight in a jet-propelled wing suit. Rossy calls himself the JetMan.

'JetMan' gets Grand Canyon OK but then scraps flight

By Rich Shulman

On a slow news day, there's nothing we editors look forward to more than a stunt man like "JetMan" planning to fly over the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, good sense got the best of him.

As AP reported:

HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. — The "JetMan" has canceled his latest planned flight.

Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy said he scrapped his plan to fly over the Grand Canyon in a jet-propelled wing suit Friday morning because he didn't have enough time to train.

"If I do a mistake and half of U.S. television (is here), it's really bad for you, for me, for everybody," he told The Associated Press from Guano Point on the Hualapai Reservation, where spectators had planned to watch him soar through the air.