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Yves had already contacted in 2002 the worlds leading model jet engine Company, “Jet-Cat”, based in Germany . This company specialized in motorizing miniature planes, quickly showed its interest to help Yves install engines onto his wings. Many tests were made with different engines, different air intakes, and they even had to test at altitudes reaching 4000 m as these particular engines had never been tested before at such an altitude. A test team was taken up in a Pilatus Porter so that fine-tuning could be made until the engines worked perfectly at high altitude.
To perfect the performance, the aerodynamic wings were improved and their span was increased to 3 meters . As of 2004 and because there was a loss of rigidity due to the inflatable side of the wings, Yves had to stop his collaboration with “Prospective Concepts” and work only with “ACT Composites” who then created foldable carbon wings, able to be used from a Pilatus Porter plane.
Handles were also fixed onto the wings so that Yves could electronically manipulate the wingtips, this giving him the freedom to decide when he wanted to either glide or dive. These new wings were tested quite a few times with different weights on them so as to see how and where the kerosene port and engines would be placed. Many simulations were tested before being able to fix on the real engines and most importantly before being ignited.
Once all ignition tests had been done at ground level, the real thing was ready to be done, but like all prototype experiments, you're lucky if the first trial is a success. Anything is possible here, ignition failure, ignition of only one engine, flight instability and even spinning is possible, but all of these failure tests were made during the long testing WILLEY E. COYOTE!!
http://www.yves-rossy.com/en/jetman.php
To perfect the performance, the aerodynamic wings were improved and their span was increased to 3 meters . As of 2004 and because there was a loss of rigidity due to the inflatable side of the wings, Yves had to stop his collaboration with “Prospective Concepts” and work only with “ACT Composites” who then created foldable carbon wings, able to be used from a Pilatus Porter plane.
Handles were also fixed onto the wings so that Yves could electronically manipulate the wingtips, this giving him the freedom to decide when he wanted to either glide or dive. These new wings were tested quite a few times with different weights on them so as to see how and where the kerosene port and engines would be placed. Many simulations were tested before being able to fix on the real engines and most importantly before being ignited.
Once all ignition tests had been done at ground level, the real thing was ready to be done, but like all prototype experiments, you're lucky if the first trial is a success. Anything is possible here, ignition failure, ignition of only one engine, flight instability and even spinning is possible, but all of these failure tests were made during the long testing WILLEY E. COYOTE!!
http://www.yves-rossy.com/en/jetman.php
