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Yves Rossy

1959 - Today

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Yves Rossy (born 27 August 1959) is a Swiss military-trained pilot and an aviation enthusiast. He is known as the inventor of a series of experimental individual jet packs, the latest using carbon-fiber wings for flight. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yves Rossy has received more than 326,662 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Yves Rossy is the 66th most popular pilot (down from 58th in 2019), the 644th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 557th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Pilot.

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  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Yves Rossy ranks 66 out of 71. Before him are Harry Cobby, Wally Funk, Adrienne Bolland, Hélène Boucher, Charles Kingsford Smith, and Lydia Zvereva. After him are Péter Besenyei, Cornelia Fort, Svetlana Kapanina, Blanche Stuart Scott, and Zara Rutherford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Yves Rossy ranks 440. Before him are Ramón Calderé, Atsushi Uchiyama, Renée Fleming, Fyodor Cherenkov, Holger Hieronymus, and Richard Baawobr. After him are Alessandro Andrei, Janet L. Kavandi, Anil Ambani, David Beauchard, Michael Spindelegger, and Bernardine Evaristo.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Yves Rossy ranks 644 out of 1,015. Before him are Philippe Senderos (1985), Jean-Denis Délétraz (1963), Ottorino Volonterio (1917), Sébastien Buemi (1988), Siem de Jong (1989), and Kurt Stettler (1932). After him are Pierre Jaccoud (1905), Alphonse Matejka (1902), Raphaël Wicky (1977), Edmund Bruggmann (1943), Urs Zimmermann (1959), and Edy Reinalter (1920).

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Among PILOTS In Switzerland

Among pilots born in Switzerland, Yves Rossy ranks 1. 

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