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Jet pack
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:33 pm
by LOSTEXAN
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:49 pm
by Killjoy
yeah a friend sent me that video a while back, thats crazy how fast he could go.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:46 pm
by StealthSpud
Yeah, I agree! That's really sweet!
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:04 pm
by Pneumatics
a guy flew into the nascar track on a jetpack. i dont remember what track but a year or 2 ago i remember watching it.
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:43 pm
by cannon freak
That truly is awesome and would be quite an experience to fly.
It has to be some expensive piece of equipment, and if Im not mistaken those turbine jet engines are one used on large RC jets, to bad their like $2500 each.
Cannon Freak.
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:10 pm
by CpTn_lAw
I have a littloe more infos than you guys......
The guys here is a captain for swissair , and has spent more than 200 000 € on this project. He developped a few wing types, and came with this last one, an inflatable wing, and he has a 6 min autonomy at full engine consumption. He can achieve speeds up to 330 Km/h. Each reactor have a pushing potential of 12 kg, but the entire man+ wing+ engine+fuel+ parachute weights 120 kg... He intends to find some very powerful engines , to permit a vertical take-off...
Some men realise their dreams.
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:01 pm
by Flying_Salt
That looks like a lot of fun. I wish I had the funding to do crazy stuff like that. I read in PopSci about this guy who made a jetpack that lets him fly around his backyard, but he stays on a tether.
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:04 pm
by pyromanic13
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:10 pm
by PAspuder
i wonder how far he can go. And how do they land it?
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:55 pm
by Orpackrat
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:10 pm
by iknowmy3tables
what kind of aplications do you think this can be used for beside just being awesome. maybe the military could use it since it probely is too small for radar, but i don't know much about steath technology
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:44 pm
by zeigs spud
not really a jet pack i think. it thrusts him while she glides around from a fall, it can't give a ground lift off.
the military has made a real Jet Pack and it hav go 50 ftin the air and hover as well move around.
still that is kool ^_^ some1 go get me one lol!