Fusionman Sets Record

Not to be a killjoy, but wake me up when he can self takeoff (no plane jump) and land without a chute
 
Sign me up for one. Maybe by 2020, it'll be be mass produced.
 
Ockie said:
Not to be a killjoy, but wake me up when he can self takeoff (no plane jump) and land without a chute
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Not to be an asshat, but wake me up when YOU jump out of a rickety prop drive with an experimental aeronautical device trapped to your back, make a sweet flight across a treacherous bit of sea, and wind up generally where you planned to be safe and sound.
 
Ok, so it took 99 years to go from crossing the channel in a plane (1909 to 2008) to cross it with a jetpack from a high altitude launch! Kind of slow progress for flight IMO?

If computers were progressing that slow, we'd still be on 300Mhz Pentium 2's.

Louis Bleriot, the 37-year old French inventor, aircraft designer, and self-trained pilot, flew across the treacherous English Channel early on July 25, 1909, in an aircraft he designed himself--the Bleriot XI. The flight from Les Barraques, France, to Dover, England, undertaken in bad weather, earned him the £1000 prize that the London Daily Mail had offered to the first aviator to cross the Channel in either direction. His accomplishment delighted the public and shocked many in the British military and political establishment.
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That rocketman is awesome. I would love to do that, but I could see myself in the door of that plane crappin' my shorts and screaming like a little girl.
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Commander Suzdal said:
This is the first guy since Cousteau and the tightrope walker to actually make it cool to be French!:D
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Cousteau was never cool since he wanted both you and me dead.
Jacques Cousteau said:
...to stabilize the world population we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.
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Ockie said:
Not to be a killjoy, but wake me up when he can self takeoff (no plane jump) and land without a chute
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I agree. He could have simply jumped out of the plane with a glider and crossed the channel the same way.
 
MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE. GOODBYE INTERNET.

But first I need to get my hands on one of these.....
 
Dreknaught said:
Not to be an asshat, but wake me up when YOU jump out of a rickety prop drive with an experimental aeronautical device trapped to your back, make a sweet flight across a treacherous bit of sea, and wind up generally where you planned to be safe and sound.
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QFT

He built it himself = [H]
 
Dreknaught said:
Not to be an asshat, but wake me up when YOU jump out of a rickety prop drive with an experimental aeronautical device trapped to your back, make a sweet flight across a treacherous bit of sea, and wind up generally where you planned to be safe and sound.
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Not to be technical, but you realize that the "rickety prop" you so call it is actually a very damn reliabile aircraft?
 
cool video, but i'd also like to see a standing launch. a parachute landing isn't a deal breaker thogh.
 
Good grief! I don't even like flying in a commercial jet airliner. Don't think his air space is gonna get too crowded any time soon.
 
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