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To: BenLurkin

How long before someone links a hundred of these together and goes for a ride....?

Reminds me just a little of “Lawn Chair Larry”, who hooked 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair and floated up up up up....to an altitude of 16,000. From the Wikipedia article:
“He took his pellet gun, a CB radio, sandwiches, beer, and a camera.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters


4 posted on 04/22/2017 11:41:23 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Aw, poor guy committed suicide at 44... knew about hi but didn’t know that.


5 posted on 04/22/2017 11:48:52 AM PDT by piasa
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To: ransomnote

Cant recall where I saw this, but I did see a guy with maybe 16 drones attached to a frame and linked. He sat underneath the frame in some sort of seating arrangement attached to the frame. The whole operation lifted him into the air.


9 posted on 04/22/2017 12:59:12 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ransomnote

There is a company that builds drones that can lift 320 pounds and go 90 miles an hour. They rent these to snowboarders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtauzr1HPE


11 posted on 04/23/2017 12:41:13 AM PDT by Krosan
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