TO INFINITY...AND BEYOND!
Posted on 12/30/2006 6:06:00 AM PST by aculeus
Be a piece of cake for a sky diver to rig that up, then dump it and pull.
Look! Up in he sky!
Where?
He was there a moment ago...
What's that smoke coming from that hill?
TO INFINITY...AND BEYOND!
:)
Projectile weapons have a sort of "immediacy" to them, I agree. How about an auto-repeating railgun?
The reason I'm skeptical, besides the obvious, is that he has maybe twenty square feet of wing area there. With a wing loading of more than ten pounds per square foot, he would need at least 100+ MPH to take off. Then there is the problem of drag with his body hanging out in the breeze. Not likely!
Reuters had video of this guy doing this a couple of days ago.
I wondered how he was going to take care of landing. All in all, interesting, scary, and better he than me.
I got him penciled in for a meeting with a rock wall...
Unbelievable. I bet this guy will be in the next James Bond movie.
My post 3 has a video.
This is real ,,, here is the manufacturer of his jet engines ... http://www.bvmjets.com/turbine/turbine_power.htm
This is not totally unbelievable. It looks like a modified hang glider
In my younger days I would have tried almost anything...even this if available.
I think the practical limitations of that type of flight will always be the amount of fuel that can be carried and weather. I don't think you'd see that fella flying around those big granite blocks in the background in 0/0 conditions.
hmmm... a rail gun... yeah, that'd work just fine.
Gotta have the .50's though. I like tracers.
Watch the video. He's got a chase plane filming him. Airborne launch from sky-diver plane. Wing tips fold up/fold out. Parachute landing. 5 minute flight time. Up to 300kph speed.
Freaking unbelievable.
Me too. I miss those days.
--indeed--
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