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Indybird
05-14-2008, 10:45 PM
Personal Jet Wings anyone (http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Man-soars-Alps-jet-powered-wing/ss/events/lf/051408yvesrossy)?

-Indybird
Quakken
05-14-2008, 10:53 PM
That's ridiculously cool.

I want some of those. I wonder what they cost to make.
Eclecticos
05-14-2008, 11:33 PM
Check out the video.

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Zephik
05-14-2008, 11:41 PM
I'm not even going to take a guess at how much a set of those would cost...

But god I really want one! lol
OvRiDe
05-14-2008, 11:42 PM
Its no Ironman suit.. but its still really cool! :D
Zephik
05-14-2008, 11:44 PM
Its no Ironman suit.. but its still really cool! :D

No, but its one step closer to being a real live Buzz Lightyear! :D
xRyokenx
05-15-2008, 12:18 AM
I wouldn't be worried about how much they cost but more of the prices for fuel. It probably won't hold or use much but I still bet it costs a pretty penny.
Trace
05-15-2008, 12:53 AM
Ok, that is crazy cool!
OvRiDe
05-15-2008, 01:09 AM
No, but its one step closer to being a real live Buzz Lightyear! :D

To infinity... and BEYOND!!! :up:
chaksq
05-15-2008, 01:18 AM
I want!
Bopher
05-15-2008, 12:44 PM
Now if you only didn't need the plane to get going. Just whoosh! and you're off to work. That would be cool.
Reyer
05-16-2008, 02:59 AM
wow

this is just sick. This man just lived the dream of hundreds of thousands of people. I would cut off my adams apple to beable to do that.
Commando
05-23-2008, 01:32 AM
I used to skydive in college and the whole wing thing comes and goes.

Usually the reason it goes is because someone dies testing the concept.

Very little progress has been made in the 10 or so years the concept has been around.

This is remarkably dangerous. Parachutes are extremely reliable but not when there is other stuff messin with the airflow. When you're wearing any type of wing it can create a vaccum in the area where you're trying to open a parachute.

No problems once the parachute opens, but as it's opening it's a crapshoot. Very easy for a deploying parachute to get badly tangled if it's in some wonky air.

Now this is much more dangerous but twice as cool. :rolleyes:

http://www.gofastsports.com/video/jetpi2.wmv

T
Indybird
05-23-2008, 08:32 AM
I used to skydive in college and the whole wing thing comes and goes.

Usually the reason it goes is because someone dies testing the concept.

Very little progress has been made in the 10 or so years the concept has been around.

This is remarkably dangerous. Parachutes are extremely reliable but not when there is other stuff messin with the airflow. When you're wearing any type of wing it can create a vaccum in the area where you're trying to open a parachute.

No problems once the parachute opens, but as it's opening it's a crapshoot. Very easy for a deploying parachute to get badly tangled if it's in some wonky air.

Now this is much more dangerous but twice as cool. :rolleyes:

http://www.gofastsports.com/video/jetpi2.wmv

T

(They've probably thought of this, but it would make sense for the parachute to have an unattached weight on the inside top of it while it is wrapped up, then have it ejected by force. That way the parachute would stay in a compressed form (so that the vacuum doesnt affect it) until it gets up to the point in which it can deploy.

-Indybird