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Jet-pack pilot soars over Gorge
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Posted on 11/25/2008 4:45:48 AM PST by JoeProBono
"There is no parachute. There is no safety net. There is no air bag. But there is 800 horsepower on my back," said the former TV stuntman who on Monday piloted his hydrogen-peroxide-powered jet pack across the 1,053-foot-deep Royal Gorge. In a 21-second burst of deafening thrust, 45-year- old Scott soared across the 1,500-foot-wide chasm, setting all kinds of first-ever records in the nascent world of rocket-strapped flight as hundreds of spectators gaped.
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Sports; Travel; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aerospace
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He had never flown more than a few hundred yards. Never been near that high. He had only 33 seconds of fuel on his back, and some of those seconds were needed for starting and hovering to land. So he'd have to fly his NASA-styled jet pack at speeds he had never reached before. That's a lot of never-evers with only sheer cliffs and a long, long fall awaiting any mistakes. "Fear either makes people suck it up and get it right or they lose it," Scott, of Denver, said moments before he twisted his hand throttle and leapt into the chasm. "I'm the Evel Knievel that makes it to the other side." Except that storied daredevil Knievel had solid backup plans, like parachutes. Scott's backup plan was to kill the gas and save any remaining fuel for a final burst as he neared something he could grab onto on the cliff above the Arkansas River. "He knew if he didn't make it, he wasn't going to make it," said Troy Widgery, founder and chief executive of Denver's Go Fast energy drink company, which sponsors Scott and Jetpack International......
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:48:58 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
To: JoeProBono
Big ole hairy set.Good for him.
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:52:30 AM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:56:24 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: JoeProBono
One wonders why he wore a helmet.
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:58:41 AM PST
by
patton
(Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Incitatus is my President.)
To: imahawk
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:04:44 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: patton
One wonders why he wore a helmet.Probably to attenuate the noise. It wouldn't have helped at all if he fell.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:04:48 AM PST
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P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: patton
Hey that thing could kick up some gravel on take off and landing.
He could put his eye out!
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:04:54 AM PST
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Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: Pontiac
Skipper: Gilligan, you can’t fly.
Gilligan: I can’t?
Skipper No!
Skipper: Oh.
//plummets to the ground//
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:07:12 AM PST
by
tenger
(It's not their money.)
To: P8riot; Pontiac
I was thinking, maybe his back up plan was to lawn dart himself in.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:07:24 AM PST
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patton
(Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Incitatus is my President.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:07:24 AM PST
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JoeProBono
( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
To: patton
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11/25/2008 5:08:17 AM PST
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P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: JoeProBono; hellinahandcart; Lil'freeper; big'ol_freeper
I saw this on TV this morning.
I want one!!!
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:09:18 AM PST
by
sauropod
(An expression of deep worry and concern failed to cross either of Zaphod's faces - hitchhiker's guid)
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:09:40 AM PST
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
He had only 33 seconds of fuel on his backFrom what I've heard that's the total amount of fly time these things have. Not good if you're stuck in a traffic jam.
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11/25/2008 5:12:25 AM PST
by
McGruff
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:13:48 AM PST
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JoeProBono
( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
To: patton
One wonders why he wore a helmet. Bird strikes? Keep the bugs off his face?
During the development of the Veyron 16-4 a bird hit the cast aluminum grill while the car was going 200 mph and blew through the grill and the radiator. They replaced the cast aluminum grill with a forged titanium one to prevent that from happening in the future. (for $1,675,000 you get quality)
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:21:52 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: from occupied ga
I did not know that one couuld forge titanium.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:25:23 AM PST
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patton
(Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Incitatus is my President.)
To: JoeProBono
Just watched the video. The guy’s got stones, I’ll give him that.
Sweet landing, too.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:31:02 AM PST
by
DemforBush
(Millions of conservatives have got your back, Sarah!)
To: JoeProBono
How does a person get authorization to do something like this?
Or do you just hook the pack onto your back and go for it?
Remarkable!
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:34:50 AM PST
by
RexBeach
("There is no such thing as a good tax." Winston Churchill)
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