The Man Who Did the Impossible, Rick Rojatt..The Human Fly
I've been searching for this guy for years...decades even. In the 1970's, I saw a guy on the nightly news...flying on the back of a jetliner, wing-walker style. The TV station played the Beach Boys song "I Get Around" as the stuntman and DC-8 jet did low passes over the crowd. I have searched since then for some trace, a rumour, a smidge of a half truth. Nothing. Lately I have been sending emails to various aviation websites and chat rooms to find clues as to whether what I saw was the real deal. For the longest time, I thought that it was a Boeing jet that carried this guy into the skies some 35 or so years ago. I then associated the Seattle TV station with the possibility of the flight happening at Paine Field. All of this led me to ask an airliner historian if he knew anything about such a thing. He said no, and suggested that such a stunt was totally impractical and nearly impossible. ( super dangerous for the stunt-man...excellent chance of a career implosion...