Amazing!!
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.
I guess so, yes, and certainly it was in use for real in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics opening ceremony:
Perhaps the issue is more around control and flexibility of true flight, and I seem to recall these early packs had flght times of just a minute or so.
But I could well be wrong.
So clever my foot fell off.
I suppose the guy with the jet pack got the short straw, and he flies to draw fire on one side while the RIBs with his mates board from the other
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
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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The Thunderball / '84 Olympics ones used rocket motors, not a jet. I googled this:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/articl...cs-1984-rocket
The Olympics rocket pilot did some of the filming for Thunderball. A couple of years ago I watched a fascinating documentary about an Australian guy who was trying to make his own jet pack; it wasn't man-in-a-shed engineering or anything like that, I think he had his own company. He'd burned himself a few times and had people standing by with water hoses for take off and landing.
Impressive; I note they picked a nice calm day to film that; I wonder how they would cope with 50 knot winds and rolling seas ...
You just wait until I release the anti-gravity boots I have been working on in my shed for the past week.
They use massively powerful magnets in the soles to repel the earth's magnetic field.
So far I've buggered up three watches when I've bent down to tie the laces... but I think it's a price worth paying.
So clever my foot fell off.
Reminded me of Terry Pratchett on the subject of 7 league boots:
A means of magical transportation once used by the wizards of Unseen University. The enchanted boots allow the wearer to travel twenty-one miles with each step. However, accidents and severe groin strain (as well as, presumably, some severely dislocated bodyparts) were common and the boots are no longer in use.
Cheers..
Jase
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 "