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Finally! A Real Jet Pack!
Today. | Me

Posted on 11/11/2015 1:30:34 PM PST by DiogenesLamp

This thing can fly for ten minutes instead of 45 seconds! It uses real jet engines.



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To: tioga
Awesome.

!!!!!!

21 posted on 11/11/2015 2:14:04 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Delta 21
Hard points for ordinance?

I imagine you could mount some rockets underneath the hand controls. :)

22 posted on 11/11/2015 2:14:46 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
All with a device you can put in the back seat of a car!”

Pretty cool. Best i've seen so far, and i've been keeping up with a lot of Jet-Pack designs. This one for example.


23 posted on 11/11/2015 2:17:14 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: JRandomFreeper
I am mindful of daddy when I watch this. Thanks for helping me to remember.

I think all of us young at heart wanted one of these.

24 posted on 11/11/2015 2:18:18 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Ok, it takes you 6 minutes to reach 10,000 and 7 minutes
to come down, how far above the earth are you when your
fuel runs out. No common core please.


25 posted on 11/11/2015 2:18:45 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: fuzzylogic
For certain applications, including having "fun", 10 mins is a significant amount of time. It is also orders of magnitude better than anything before it. A light person could also carry more fuel, so it isn't a fixed 10 mins.

Why, with enough fuel, it could probably lift Michael Moore for almost 2 seconds!

26 posted on 11/11/2015 2:18:46 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
What kind of engine(s)?

As near as I can tell they are turbine jet engines that burn either diesel or kerosine.

27 posted on 11/11/2015 2:19:43 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ray76
Looks like fun.

Yup. But so do a lot of other things that will get you killed pretty quick. :)

28 posted on 11/11/2015 2:20:28 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: fuzzylogic

It’s still not useful. This is useful.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVh-vlUius


29 posted on 11/11/2015 2:25:32 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I think all of us young at heart wanted one of these.

Wanted? Past tense?

30 posted on 11/11/2015 2:26:09 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Diesel, kerosene, and JET-A are essentially the same thing. Different additives, possibly different sulfur content.


31 posted on 11/11/2015 2:28:20 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain
Wanted? Past tense?

I don't have any plans to be flying one. Too much other stuff I need to stay alive for.

32 posted on 11/11/2015 2:33:59 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

I guess it’s a matter of perspectives.


33 posted on 11/11/2015 2:36:32 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Ralphie: “I want a Red Ryder jet=pack for Christmas!”
Mom: “You’ll burn your *** off.”


34 posted on 11/11/2015 2:40:23 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Jonty30

15-20 mile range isn’t too bad (100+ mph max for 10+ minutes depending on weight).

quick hop but definitely needs to last longer


35 posted on 11/11/2015 2:50:38 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: tet68
Not long enough for the Ell Tee.

/johnny

36 posted on 11/11/2015 2:53:03 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: tet68

“Ok, it takes you 6 minutes to reach 10,000 and 7 minutes
to come down, how far above the earth are you when your
fuel runs out. No common core please.”

-1.0 minutes (6 minus 7), so you’ll be on the ground 1 minute prior to departing, which makes sense. And I did that WITHOUT my Common Core Calculator.

Who says that the government is screwing up education!


37 posted on 11/11/2015 2:54:32 PM PST by BobL ( (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: DiogenesLamp

To the Future Darwin Award winners:

Burning jet fuel on your back, flying dozens of feet above the hard ground, nothing to break your fall, around buildings and trees and birds, at upwards of 30 mph...

What could possibly go wrong?

:-)


38 posted on 11/11/2015 2:55:46 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: DiogenesLamp

Definitely would be fun to take to work and back.


39 posted on 11/11/2015 2:55:58 PM PST by BobL ( (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: DiogenesLamp

OK, how much?


40 posted on 11/11/2015 3:03:13 PM PST by nomad
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