{"id":3743939,"date":"2026-07-04T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/craziest-daredevil-stunts-aviation-history\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:38:31","slug":"le-acrobazie-piu-folli-e-spericolate-nella-storia-dellaviazione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/craziest-daredevil-stunts-aviation-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Le acrobazie pi\u00f9 folli nella storia dell&#039;aviazione"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background 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Some did it for money, some for pride, some out of sheer, reckless joy. Many did not survive it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here is the big one: our rundown of the craziest, most daring stunts ever flown. Grab a coffee \u2014 this is a long ride through more than a hundred years of nerve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f4f6f9; border-radius: 8px; padding: 18px 22px; margin: 24px 0;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; font-weight: bold; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: .3px;\">QUICK FACTS<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>First aerial loop<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Pyotr Nesterov, 1913<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>The loop king<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Lincoln Beachey \u2014 died mid-stunt, 1915<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Under the Arc de Triomphe<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Charles Godefroy, 1919<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Barnstorming<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Wing-walkers and plane-to-plane transfers, 1920s<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Barrel-rolling an airliner<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Tex Johnston, Boeing 707, 1955<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Jet under a bridge<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Valentin Privalov, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-17-fresco\">MiG-17<\/a>, 1965<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Tea at 1G<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Bob Hoover\u2019s iced-tea barrel roll<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Formation to the inch<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Red Arrows &amp; Blue Angels<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Jet-powered wings<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Yves Rossy, \u201cJetman\u201d<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>From the edge of space<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #222;\">Felix Baumgartner, 2012<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The first daredevils: loops and dives<\/h2>\r\n<p>Aerobatics were born almost the moment aircraft could survive them. In September 1913, over Kiev, Russian military pilot Pyotr Nesterov hauled his flimsy Nieuport into the first recorded aerial <em>loop<\/em> \u2014 a manoeuvre so shocking that the army first punished him for endangering government property, then celebrated him as a hero.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/pyotr-nesterov-first-loop.jpg\" alt=\"Pyotr Nesterov\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">Pyotr Nesterov, who flew the first recorded aerial loop in 1913. He was reprimanded before he was celebrated. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>In America, the loop\u2019s master was Lincoln Beachey \u2014 \u201cthe Man Who Owns the Sky.\u201d Beachey looped, dived vertically toward crowds, and even flew inside exhibition halls, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators. His luck ran out in March 1915 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco: pulling out of a vertical dive, his monoplane\u2019s wings folded, and he plunged into the bay before a horrified crowd. The greatest daredevil of his age was killed by the very stunt that made him famous.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/lincoln-beachey-loop-stunt-pilot.jpg\" alt=\"Lincoln Beachey flying a loop\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">Lincoln Beachey looping his aircraft \u2014 the stunt that made him the biggest star in early aviation, and the kind that killed him in 1915. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Threading the monuments of Paris<\/h2>\r\n<p>No city tempted daredevils like Paris. Pilots flew <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/the-pilots-who-flew-under-the-eiffel-tower\/\">beneath the Eiffel Tower<\/a>, sliding between its iron legs. But the boldest Parisian stunt came in August 1919, when Charles Godefroy flew a Nieuport fighter clean under the Arc de Triomphe \u2014 furious that aviators had been asked to <em>march<\/em> in the victory parade rather than fly. The gap is terrifyingly narrow. He made it, and a camera caught it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/charles-godefroy-arc-de-triomphe-1919\/\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/godefroy-arc-de-triomphe-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Godefroy under the Arc de Triomphe, 1919\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">Godefroy threads his Nieuport under the Arc de Triomphe, 7 August 1919 \u2014 a protest flown at a hundred miles an hour. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Barnstorming: standing on the wings<\/h2>\r\n<p>The 1920s belonged to the barnstormers \u2014 gypsy pilots who toured America performing death-defying stunts for farm crowds. The wildest were the wing-walkers, who climbed out onto the wings <em>in flight<\/em>, hung from the undercarriage, and even transferred from one aircraft to another in mid-air. The pioneer was Ormer Locklear, whose plane-to-plane transfers made him a Hollywood star \u2014 until he was killed filming a night stunt in 1920. It was glorious, and it was lethal: a great many barnstormers did not see thirty.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/aerosuperbatics-wingwalkers-stearman.jpg\" alt=\"Two AeroSuperBatics wingwalkers perform on Boeing Stearman biplanes\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The tradition lives on: AeroSuperBatics wingwalkers on their Boeing Stearmans \u2014 barnstorming, a century after it began. Photo: Airwolfhound \/ CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Rolling an airliner over a crowd<\/h2>\r\n<p>Some stunts were pure salesmanship. On 7 August 1955, Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 \u2014 the prototype of the Boeing 707, the jet that would launch modern air travel \u2014 over a crowd of airline executives at Seattle\u2019s Seafair. Twice. When Boeing\u2019s furious president demanded to know what he thought he was doing, Johnston\u2019s reply became legend: <em>\u201cSelling airplanes.\u201d<\/em> He kept his job, and the footage survives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Uqyrviw4Es\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/tex-johnston-707-barrel-roll-seattle-1955\/\">The full story of that flight is here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">A fighter jet under a bridge<\/h2>\r\n<p>The Cold War produced its own legend. In 1965, Soviet pilot Valentin Privalov flew a MiG-17 <em>beneath<\/em> a railway bridge over the Ob River near Novosibirsk \u2014 at around 700 km\/h, a few metres above the water. He should have been court-martialled; instead, a senior officer, impressed by the sheer skill, let him off. <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/valentin-privalov-mig-17-bridge-1965\/\">We tell that story in full here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/mikoyan-gurevich-mig-17-fresco.jpg\" alt=\"MiG-17 fighter\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">A MiG-17 of the type Valentin Privalov threaded under the Ob River bridge in 1965. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The Tower Bridge incident remains so notorious that people are still explaining it half a century later \u2014 this short tells the story in under a minute:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uB4PkhX6h4Q\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The master of control: Bob Hoover<\/h2>\r\n<p>Not every legend flew recklessly. Bob Hoover made the impossible look serene. His signature trick was pouring iced tea into a glass while barrel-rolling his aircraft \u2014 holding a perfect one-G arc so not a drop spilled. He would also fly a complete aerobatic routine with <em>both engines shut off<\/em>, then dead-stick the aircraft back onto the runway and taxi to his exact starting spot. Where others relied on nerve, Hoover relied on absolute mastery. <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/bob-hoover-the-greatest-pilot-youve-never-heard-of\/\">More on Hoover here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/bob-hoover-shrike-commander.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Hoover\u2019s Shrike Commander\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">Bob Hoover\u2019s twin-engined Shrike Commander \u2014 in which he flew full aerobatic routines with both engines shut down. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>You don\u2019t have to take anyone\u2019s word for it \u2014 the film survives. Watch the glass sitting on the glareshield as the horizon rolls all the way around it, and the tea keeps pouring:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2-9BL7sllk\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>And the trick didn\u2019t retire with Hoover. MiGFlug customers have recreated it in the back seat of an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/l-39-albatros\">L-39<\/a> Albatros \u2014 a smooth barrel roll, one drink, not a drop spilled. Physics doesn\u2019t care whether the jet is a Shrike Commander or a Czech trainer; a perfectly flown 1G roll is a perfectly flown 1G roll. If you\u2019d like to try pouring your own, that\u2019s literally <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/why-the-l-39-albatros-is-the-worlds-most-popular-fighter-jet-experience\/\">a thing you can book<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhSn4dvbrjo\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Formation flying to the inch<\/h2>\r\n<p>Then there is the stunt performed in plain sight at every air show: teams like Britain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/red-arrows\/\">Red Arrows<\/a> and America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/blue-angels\/\">Blue Angels<\/a> flying in formation just feet \u2014 sometimes inches \u2014 apart, rolling, looping and crossing at closing speeds that leave no margin for a lapse in concentration. It looks like a display. It is, in truth, one of the most demanding forms of precision flying ever devised.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/red-arrows-inverted-formation.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Arrows inverted in tight formation\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The Red Arrows roll upside down in tight formation \u2014 daredevilry disciplined into an art form. (Photo: UK MOD \/ OGL)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The modern breed: wings and the edge of space<\/h2>\r\n<p>The daredevil never died \u2014 he just got new toys. Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, \u201cJetman,\u201d strapped a rigid carbon wing fitted with four small jet engines to his back and flew it like a human aircraft, crossing the English Channel in 2008 and later soaring in formation with airliners over Dubai. And in 2012, Felix Baumgartner rode a balloon to the edge of space and stepped out from around 39 kilometres up \u2014 breaking the sound barrier with his own body in freefall.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/felix-baumgartner-red-bull-stratos.jpg\" alt=\"Felix Baumgartner\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the edge of space in 2012 and went supersonic in freefall. (Photo: Ank Kumar \/ CC BY-SA)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Every one of these pilots gambled everything on a handful of perfect seconds. The ones who succeeded became immortal; the ones who failed became cautionary tales. That is the eternal bargain of the daredevil \u2014 and why, more than a century on, we still can\u2019t look away.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: contemporary press and newsreel archives; This Day in Aviation; Smithsonian; aviation history collections.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\r\n<!-- mf-faq -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;color:#5C91FF}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}<\/style>\r\n<h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2>\r\n<details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>What are the craziest stunts in aviation history?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>They span more than a century: Pyotr Nesterov flying the first loop in 1913, Lincoln Beachey\u2019s death-defying dives, Charles Godefroy flying under the Arc de Triomphe in 1919, barnstormers wing-walking in the 1920s, Tex Johnston barrel-rolling a Boeing 707 in 1955, Valentin Privalov flying a MiG-17 under a bridge in 1965, Bob Hoover\u2019s precision aerobatics, and Felix Baumgartner\u2019s 2012 jump from the edge of space.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Who flew the first aerial loop?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov flew the first recorded aerial loop in September 1913 over Kiev. He was briefly punished for risking a military aircraft before being celebrated. American Lincoln Beachey performed loops soon after and became one of the first great stunt-flying stars.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Did a test pilot really barrel-roll a passenger jet?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Yes. On 7 August 1955, Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 \u2014 the prototype of the Boeing 707 \u2014 twice over a crowd at Seattle\u2019s Seafair. When his boss demanded an explanation, Johnston famously replied, \u201cSelling airplanes.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>What was Bob Hoover famous for?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Bob Hoover was revered for making impossible precision look effortless. He would pour iced tea into a glass while barrel-rolling his aircraft (staying at a steady 1G so nothing spilled) and fly a full aerobatic routine with both engines shut off, landing exactly on his mark.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Who flew with jet-powered wings?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, known as \u201cJetman,\u201d built a rigid carbon-fibre wing fitted with small jet engines and flew it strapped to his back \u2014 crossing the English Channel in 2008 and later flying formation with airliners and fighter jets over Dubai.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Are aviation stunts like these still allowed today?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>Almost none of them would be permitted now. Flying under monuments or bridges breaches strict airspace rules, and modern air-show aerobatics are tightly regulated for safety. 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