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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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  1. What's that noise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, it's just the Darwin Awards guys inscribing his name on the plaque

  2. new at walmart! by boog3r · · Score: 5, Funny
    Your very own jetpack/leafblower combo!


    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!

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  3. Faking It by limekiller4 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Checking out the "faking it" site, we find:

    http://www.dreamalitytechnologies.com/ultralight.h tm

    ...are those wings really necessary? =)

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  4. Please, Stop Working On It Today... by limekiller4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    He should probably leave this thing on the rack today.

    "MOM! MOM!! I just saw Stanta fly by!!"
    *THUD!
    [child sobbing]

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  5. Re:Cool by mkweise · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.)

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  6. ...a rotor of a large KKK brand turbocharger. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it come with a hood?

  7. Jetpack? by TREETOP · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Working jetpacks are out there... by limekiller4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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