If you thought jetpacks were the stuff of a madman’s dream – or the preserve of James Bond’s Q branch– think again. In a video that any vertigo sufferers should probably avoid at all costs, Yves ‘Jetman’ Rossi is dropped from a helicopter and successfully completes a solo flight over Rio de Janeiro.

The scenery and the skies are beautiful, while the jetpack itself its scarcely credible in its speed and grace – but the vast drop down to the ground has left CultBox huddled in a corner, waiting for the room to stop spinning….