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Another Pass at the Personal Jetpack
Engadget is reporting that dreams of a personal jet pack may not be quite as distant as you might think. Skywalker Jets, created by Rick Herron boasts a 90-pound jet pack capable of propelling a 200-pound pilot through the air for about five minutes without the hassle of charred lower extremities. The production model, which he hopes to run past the FAA soon for approval, will only cost you somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000 — so start saving your pennies.
The production model, which he hopes to run past the FAA soon for approval [...]
Ah, yes. The good old "If I run fast enough it looks like my feet are off the ground" ploy.
"plummetting down like bags of wet cement."
No, no. They will plummet down SCREAMING. They will SPLASH like bags of wet cement.
Hey, Mom! Is it beer, yet?
Gee, EveryOne Really Gets Excited Laughing Up Cool Aero-vehicles. Still, We're In Luck. Landing Seems Uncompromisingly Easy.
"without the hassle of charred lower extremities"
Instead you just have lightly baked lower extremeties with a touch of fried groins.
Videogames made me kill people...I also eat mushrooms to grow bigger.
Sure glad it's got that yellow bar across the front of it for safety, just in case people can't see the freaking FLAMES and SMOKE, can't smell the FLESH, and can't hear the ROAR and the SCREAMING.
Skywalker Jets, created by Rick Herron boasts a 90 pound jet pack capable of propelling a 200 pound pilot through the air
... but what about we Americans?
Back when I was still flying (Army National National Guard, rotary wing) the landing checklist no longer included a fuel check (made sense to me).
However, the "old guys" were in the habit of a fuel check before landing.
One flight I finally responded to "fuel check" with "enough to land".
The Pilot-in-Command responded: "How much?"
Me: "Enough to land"
He: "If you did not calculate it how do you know?"
Me: "I don't have to calculate it. With or without fuel we are going to land."
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
Insurance.. you think they're going to insure somebody on one of these things?
Ha...haha.. hahahahah!
I'd have a better chance at getting insurance by wielding a Wiley Coyote bat wing with an Acme rocket rammed up my keester!
[X] Jetpack
[X] Nightvision
[X] Steroids
[X] Medikit
[X] Armor
[ ] holoduke
[ ] atomic health
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
When the personal helicopter is more utilitarian than the product you're marketing, it's probably time to go back to the drawing board.
Well, it would allow you to commit suicide by jumping off quite small bridges.
Squirrel!
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
"Cables holding me down.." No, I can just barely see the wires the's suspended by, in his backyard, with his mom watching as he lifts his feet off the ground to pretend that he's flying. ...I'm sorry, even if it's legit and that's not his mom, the video is kinda funny.
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Paraphrasing "WKRP in Cincinnati":
"As God is my witness, I thought geeks could fly!"
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
VTOL stand for Very Tragic Ordeal with Lacerations, right?
Well, the divers can't land on you.
To reign is to serve.
Divers dive in pairs, and you always have a secondary regulator on your equipment, in case your buddy runs out of air or has an equipment failure.
I don't think that that kind of redundancy is gonna work for the jetpack...
Depends on how fat your flying partner is.
Evolution in Action?
emt 377 emt 4
I don't know what scares me more, the fact that you're actually worried about jet pack riders raining from the sky onto your head, or the fact that you were modded to +5.
Ah yes... forcing them gracefully to land.. in the limb chipper...
AHhhhhhhhhHHHHhhhhhhhh grrrrrriiiidddd....
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.