When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Amazing!!
Impressive.
A swarm of those would be quite a sight.
I hate to be a spoilsport but wouldn’t a well aimed machine gun have them all in the sea pretty quickly?
Looks a lot of fun though.
If they can make them near silent...
Couple of years ago a student at Lboro uni helped redesign the motor thrusters.
One dinner he did a flying exhibition in a large cordoned off area.
He wanted to appear coming over the design school but h&s had a hearth attack.
It was supposed to be a slow demo staying well away from the crowds.
Let’s just say if you got lent a Ferrari would you drive it at 30mph
Another student in the Towers had a sense of humour with the theme to Ironman blaring out.
I'm sure there's plenty of military applications that would benefit with fast insertion that doesn't require simultaneous blazing guns.
https://youtu.be/Gl3oXslewlA
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
The boarding the ship video is awesome - really impressive.
A couple of questions that spring to my mind, that someone who knows more about this than me might be able to answer:
1 Given the temperatures that jet engines operate at, and the heat of their exhaust, if the pilot slipped even slightly and that exhaust touched his leg, surely he'd be hideously injured?
2 Are the trousers fire-proof then?
3 Does the pilot have to have extremely strong arms to do this? Those four engines must be generating considerable thrust and stress on his arms.
Sorry, that was three questions.
So clever my foot fell off.
Haven't they had this technology since the 1960's?
Cheers,
Neil.
Judging by the founder of Gravity there's a need to be strong and fit:
https://youtu.be/EAJM5L9hhBs. (Really informative video too).
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Take a look at the second link in:
They must have done quite a lot of flights, testing and demos by now and seem pretty aware of the health and safety issues. The good news being that I haven't seen anything in the press about a major accident.
That said, a Google search brought up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPeQKrmMyJk.
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Militarily, utterly, utterly, utterly pointless.
Have a go yourself for £2.4K
https://gravity.co/flight-experience
Cheers,
Ben
..... for I have become the Jedi of flippers
" an extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife "