Yves Rossy

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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
- Yves Rossy
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
- Yves Rossy
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I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
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I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.
- Yves Rossy
Collection: Technology
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When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
- Yves Rossy
Collection: Dark
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Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.
- Yves Rossy
Collection: Dream
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I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
- Yves Rossy
Collection: Bird