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How long have we been talking about having jetpacks? Something like 60 years?
1 posted on 11/11/2015 1:30:34 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
You tube video.

https://youtu.be/kh-rRzyUgQA

2 posted on 11/11/2015 1:31:57 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Ten minutes of flight time makes it as useless as every other jet pack.

Give me no less than an hour so I can get somewhere and I’ll be interested.


3 posted on 11/11/2015 1:34:50 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Tim Wilson wrote a song about them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1SCu9yiBlo


5 posted on 11/11/2015 1:38:20 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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I wanna see the landing, first.


6 posted on 11/11/2015 1:39:22 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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Hard points for ordinance?


9 posted on 11/11/2015 1:44:06 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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JETPACK AVIATION

http://jetpackaviation.com/


10 posted on 11/11/2015 1:44:46 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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From their website.

“We’ve been test flying JB-9 for several years with awesome results. It is inherently stable but also capable of very dynamic maneuvers thanks to our approach to engine vectoring. Early testing of our next version, JB-10, indicates that it will achieve flights of over 10,000 feet altitude (not that many pilots will be needing to fly that high!), at speeds greater than 100 mph and with an endurance of 10 minutes + (depending on pilot weight).

All with a device you can put in the back seat of a car!”


12 posted on 11/11/2015 1:46:14 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Too cool.

Daddy wanted one like this, or at least see one like this, but he died before it happened.

I am mindful of daddy when I watch this. Thanks for helping me to remember.

/johnny

13 posted on 11/11/2015 1:47:35 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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How does auto-gyro work? What kind of engine(s)?


16 posted on 11/11/2015 1:58:21 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("We finally found a baby that Democrats don't want to kill -- Hitler." (Chris Plante))
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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 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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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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OK, how much?


40 posted on 11/11/2015 3:03:13 PM PST by nomad
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Cool beans. I can see special operators loving this for quick extraction. They could each strap one on and it would take them up and away to a safe area, ship or even inside a airborne helicopter or cargo plane!

Tweaking over time will increase range and efficiency significantly.

41 posted on 11/11/2015 3:31:07 PM PST by amorphous
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