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Personal Jet Pack for X-mas!
teamhasnoi writes "This guy has spent mucho time and money building a ducted fan 'jet pack'. No faking for this guy, it looks like there is some real technology there. Now he just needs a sponsor."
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Oh, it's just the Darwin Awards guys inscribing his name on the plaque
Blow leaves, snow, sand, water and even unwanted neighbors all the way out of the neighborhood!
Great gift idea for all the suburbanites in your family!
signatures are for fools with hands
http://www.dreamalitytechnologies.com/ultralight.h tm
My
Limekiller
He should probably leave this thing on the rack today.
"MOM! MOM!! I just saw Stanta fly by!!"
*THUD!
[child sobbing]
My
Limekiller
I'm pretty sure it would still be unsafe.
1 good fart and your still going to explode!
could only lift I think about 100 punds two feet off the ground
Hell, that much jet propulsion can be achieved with the help of nothing but a generous portion of one of the less digestible varieties of beans. (Better hurry, thought, before they pass a law against personal greenhouse gas emissions.)
Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
Does it come with a hood?
umm, I don't think so. I've seen one or two exotics at an unnamed Hamvention, so here is my own Rule #16: don't strap yourself to a hundred pounds of pre-shrapnel. Strap in someone else. Science hurts.
Raetsel writes:
"...and featured a helmet shaker that would get your attention when you were about to run out of fuel."
Later models included a helmet puncher, throat throttler or nut twister as a standard option.
My
Limekiller
Oh, you mean "in Soviet Russia, the jet packs you!"
;)
-T
The pilot's torso is directly in the path of the jet's output. Any solid objects sucked into the intake are likely to punch a hole through the output manifold and be blown through the pilot.
I apologize profusely for observing that such an event during an inaugural test flight would be a tragic blow to this astounding engineering effort, but would also make for one of the most totally cool and awesome video clips ever produced anywhere.