Watch Jetpack-Wearing Daredevils Race an Airbus Over Dubai

Swiss daredevil Yves “Jetman” Rossy and his co-Jetman, Vince Reffet, filmed an incredible stunt flying with an Emirates airline A380 from 4,000 feet over Dubai.

“This task will be quite different from what we normally do”, Captain Abbas Shaban, Emirates’ chief pilot for technical operations, said in a making-of video for the event. Check out the behind the scenes below!

Released alongside the stunning video of the flight was a longer video detailing what exactly went on behind the scenes to prepare for the event (posted below).

Two jetpack pilots flew in formation with the world’s largest passenger airplane over Dubai in an fantastic stunt captured on video.

Describing his experience as surreal, Rossy said: “We felt like mosquitoes beside a big eagle”. “It also showcases how far human vision and ambition has and can continue to push aviation’s boundaries”. Though the jetpacks do include rockets, they’re more like wearable plane wings, with a carbon-fiber-based jet wing propelled by four turbine engines that produce about 88 lbs. It took a few detailed choreography to pull off the event since it all took place within a strictly confined airspace over Dubai. The jetpacks could only function at that velocity and precision level for 10 minutes at a time, so Emirates had to maximize every filming opportunity.

And if that doesn’t scare you enough, to get started, the two have to fly 7,000 feet in the air and jump out of a helicopter.