Jinx wrote:

>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10430592
>
>Swiss airline pilot Yves Rossy flies through the air over Spain at 185km/h
>wearing jet-powered carbon-fibre wings
>
>He jumped from a plane over Empuriabrava, glided to 2499m ***
>and then flew horizontally for four minutes
>
>The photographs, taken on March 12, were posted by Rossy on his
>FusionMan project website as a build-up to his showing off his creation
>at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions next month
>
>http://www.jet-man.com/
>
>(*** 2499m ??? !!! Who measured that ?)
>
>  
>
RADAR Altimeter or maybe even a laser range finder.  Much more accurate 
then the old fashion barometric altimeters. Or maybe even the high end 
GPS units.  For a few thousand  the surveyors here in the states are 
supposed to get accuracy down to inches.

Recon
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