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| Three Generations of Service  |
Link to original video: https://youtu.be/eZWy9KcHyiE Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | ||
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WOW-Amazing technology....I am an old man and I would love one of these to play on....Thaks for the video...Mark | |||
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| Flying Sergeant |
That is cool. Can you imagine having that? Thanks for the video! | |||
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| Too soon old, too late smart |
That thing could revolutionize duck hunting. | |||
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| Donate Blood, Save a Life!  |
Wow! With some wings on it, we edge ever closer to Green Goblin/Hobgoblin. *** "Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I will either find a way or make one)." -- Hannibal Barca | |||
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Interesting if true, but looks fake to me. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Thanks, pal! Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I thought that too....needs green paint! ———- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for thou art crunchy and taste good with catsup. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service |
I had the same feeling but thought I'd just throw it up without comment to get reactions. I'm just not sure the technology is there to provide enough lift. And if it is, the power source must be pretty revolutionary. And then there are stability issues. Seems like we'd have heard about such things if those sort of breakthroughs were being made. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service |
Any time, my Cyber-Friend!  Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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I'm not seeing any evidence of thrust coming out. the bottom. There's like no air movement at all. | |||
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Well, it clearly shows two small turbojet engines (like I used in my r/c jets) mounted vertically. Can't tell which specific ones they are or how large they are, thrustwise, for sure. These small turbojet engines put out anywhere from 5 pounds to several hundred pounds of thrust depending on the size of the specific engine. | |||
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He is wearing a parachute. We would need a lot better and more complete air traffic control before we have people zooming around in the air. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Are you sure that’s a chute? He never gets high enough for a chute to deploy. I thought it might be a power pack of some sort, fuel, maybe. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Looks like a flying Segway. That'd be fun to try. Over water. Or a REALLY big pile of marshmallows or something. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Pretty cool. I also want those Iron Man palm things he fires at the bad guys..... You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house!  |
That would be the fuel pack. Gyro stabilization and skills would make it possible but I wonder where the polar moment of inertia is and how easy it would be to tumble foreword past the gyros ability to stabilize it. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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Well since I weigh (at the moment) around 220 lbs. and given the device itself weighs 40 lbs.? And given the backpack of fuel and whatever of 10 lbs., that means this thing would have to generate somewhere around 270 lbs. of thrust to get my fat rump off the ground. Not sure that's gonna happen... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Thanks for sharing. What an amazing platform! If only... Blackhorse4 | |||
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A little similar to flying a helicopter, except the thrust is from below rather than lift from above. Certainly not as easy to fly as it appeared. Problem too is knowing when to land. With a helo you can auto-rotate and come down with some sense of control. If/when that engine quits you better be on the ground... | |||
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