This is really handy for looking for anything that's been posted in video format. One of the fun things is looking for funny advertisements thats being shown around the world or even catching up on your favourite soap that you missed while on holiday.
The jetman video is one that I liked. This is a synopsis of that video that I pulled out from another webpage http://www.flixxy.com/jet-man: On June 24th, 2004 Yves Rossy drops out of the Pilatus airplane at an altitude of 4000m over the Yverdon airfield. Before pulling on the little lever that controls the opening of his wings, Yves lets himself glide for a couple seconds and at the altitude of 2500m, he starts the ignition of the engines and waits 30 seconds for them to be able to stabilize. Once they are steady, he can finally speed up the engines and suddenly the dream comes true. He manages a horizontal flight at 1600m from the ground for more than 4 minutes, at a speed of 100 knots in formation with the Pilatus airplane. You can watch his flight from YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-66AcTo9TU - but as usual, this site is blocked on our staff pcs :( I liked it, because it means that individual/personal jet powered travel is possible in the future. If this was added in the library website, we can put it under the heading "anything is possible!"
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