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Man Attempts To Cross English Channel With Jet Wing
Back in May, we told you about Swiss pilot Yves Rossy and his personal jet powered wing. It seems Mr. Rossy will now try to cross the English Channel with his invention. The flight was planned for Sept. 25 but had to be canceled due to poor weather. Yves will leap from a plane more than 2,500 meters off the ground, fire up his jets and try to make the 35-kilometer flight from Calais in France to Dover in England. If all goes well, the flight will take about 12 minutes. I'd like to officially ask Mr. Rossy for a review model for Slashdot.
Transformers here to save the day!
Got his cap screwed a bit too tight.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I'm BATMAN!
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
My wife says that I cannot have one.......
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Could you explain that with a car analogy?
I also want one, but only after I fully digest the heavy lunch I just ate.
factor 966971: 966971
There's my jetpack!!!
It's here.
Not mentioned in TFA, he tried to do this at Kittyhawk where the Wright brothers made their historic flight. But there was some trouble getting clearance with the US authorities....
Why am I thinking of G.I. Joe from the 80's?
Now we just need red and blue laser guns that look like M-16's.
And maybe a ROFLCOPTOR.
Mess not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
More likely to be a very fast hot one, really.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
I REALLY don't want to see him with his gear down...
Ouch.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man still has no depth perception.
With balls that big there will be too much drag.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
... what happens if he doesn't make it?
I wonder if his will has a provision- "If the bloody thing blows up and murders me, the design for it becomes creative commons- hopefully those Linux nuts can figure out why it blew up!"
Little does he know we'd just fork it into a million different versions, all similar but incompatible (and all unable to run Halo2), then Microsoft would bring out JetPackXP Professional and everyone except us would use that instead...
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Buzz Lightyear called. He wants his suit back.
The game.
OMFG! I so need to strap a cat to one of those!
For a brick, he flew pretty good. -- Sarge
What, he's not landing by running very, very fast?
Disappointed I am, sir; disappointed.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
A successful flight would take 12 minutes.
An unsuccessful one would take 20 seconds.
Oh no an AC is complaining about my post, whatever will I do.
Did it ever occour to you that what is obvious to you may not be obvious to everyone asshole?
He'll probably make it if you've watched his videos.
Shit, I haven't seen any of his videos yet! We have to get on this guys, this man's life is in our hands!
Besides the usual 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' tag, I move that this merits an entirely new tag...
'WhatCouldPossiblyGoWright'