Powered skydiving is an activity where a skydiver

Skydiver

A skydiver is a person who engages in the sport of parachuting. It may also refer to:* SkyDiver a futuristic submarine featured in the TV series UFO* "Skydiver" a carnival ride produced by Chance Morgan...

 jumps from some height (usually an airplane) wearing propulson and small wings to fly their bodies. Efforts have been made by wingsuit flyers to sustain altitude, but the most successful was Yves Rossy

Yves Rossy

Yves Rossy is a Swiss pilot, inventor and aviation enthusiast. He is the first person to achieve sustained human flight using a jet-powered fixed wing strapped to his back...

 who jumped out of an airplane wearing airplane-type rigid wings with four small jet motors attached to them.

See also

• Powered paragliding
  Powered paragliding
  Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a motor on his or her back which provides enough thrust to take off using an adapted paraglider or paramotor wing...
  
  alias paramotoring, where the man takes off from the ground.

External links

• http://www.uspa.org U.S. Parachute Organization, all about skydiving
• http://www.jet-man.com/prod/index_en.html Yves Rossy powered skydiver website