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[Fire-medic]

But it definitely isn't very-safe, nor legal!

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ort-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on
And just to stoke the rumors:



It beats a 'squirrel suit' all-to-h-e-double-hockeysticks!

 

[Parminio]

There is a fellow that made a system along those lines in England I believe. He used it to fly across the English Channel in a big publicity stunt some time ago - a year or so I think.

Of note: he failed his first couple of attempts.

I'm wondering if maybe he's selling that to people and they're using it for stupid stunts like this.

 

[stevewgardner]

But it definitely isn't very-safe, nor legal!

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ort-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on
And just to stoke the rumors:



It beats a 'squirrel suit' all-to-h-e-double-hockeysticks!

But it definitely isn't very-safe, nor legal!

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ort-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on
And just to stoke the rumors:



It beats a 'squirrel suit' all-to-h-e-double-hockeysticks!

Wait, you ride a motorcycle in the middle of all these idiots looking at their cellphones, doing their makeup, shaving, reading the newspaper, etc., and you call this unsafe? Just kidding man. Face it, if we are riding with the horrible drivers out there, we are all Danger Dans. The guy in the jetpack is just crazy.

 

[putin]

Wait, you ride a motorcycle in the middle of all these idiots looking at their cellphones, doing their makeup, shaving, reading the newspaper, etc., and you call this unsafe? Just kidding man. Face it, if we are riding with the horrible drivers out there, we are all Danger Dans. The guy in the jetpack is just crazy.

Firemedic is just jeleous, he dont have such a thing and looks fo excuses.

 

[Fire-medic]

I was promised a jet pack and a flying car when I was growing up in the 1950's/'60's. Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanix Illustrated (featuring the great 'Uncle" Tom McCahill, king of the road testers) https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/uncle-tom-mccahill Argosy, and other male-oriented magazines all periodically had articles about some design or project that was sure to get us in the air. Probably for the best, these things never went beyond the experimental stage. Just today was another the flying car is undergoing testing! article. Japanese company successfully tests a manned flying car for the first time.

Who remembers the BeeDee5?

 

[Pighuntingpuppy]

I was promised a jet pack and a flying car when I was growing up in the 1950's/'60's. Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanix Illustrated (featuring the great 'Uncle" Tom McCahill, king of the road testers) https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/uncle-tom-mccahill Argosy, and other male-oriented magazines all periodically had articles about some design or project that was sure to get us in the air. Probably for the best, these things never went beyond the experimental stage. Just today was another the flying car is undergoing testing! article. Japanese company successfully tests a manned flying car for the first time.

Who remembers the BeeDee5?

I actually saw one waaaaaaay back in the day. Probably about 20 years ago now. I have no idea if it was air worthy though. Guy in NY had one where we use to launch our ultra-lites. White and red was this one. Didnt have the prop on it though.

 

[putin]

I was promised a jet pack and a flying car when I was growing up in the 1950's/'60's. Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanix Illustrated (featuring the great 'Uncle" Tom McCahill, king of the road testers) https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/uncle-tom-mccahill Argosy, and other male-oriented magazines all periodically had articles about some design or project that was sure to get us in the air. Probably for the best, these things never went beyond the experimental stage. Just today was another the flying car is undergoing testing! article. Japanese company successfully tests a manned flying car for the first time.

Who remembers the BeeDee5?

The best working compact device to get you in the air is antitank mine

 

[Fire-medic]

The best working compact device to get you in the air is antitank mine

I thought it was the ejection seat.

 

[desert_max]

Great. I just spent 30 minutes watching clips of old 007 movies. Thanks FM.

 

[Fire-medic]

Great. I just spent 30 minutes watching clips of old 007 movies. Thanks FM.

007 was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. One of my friends was reading the 007 series, and he started me reading them, just-before Goldfinger was released. I was old-enough to see it but not old-enough to drive myself to-see it! I have some hardbound first-editions of the series. Sir Ian Fleming was a British soldier doing the type of work in counterintelligence he later wrote-of, in WW II. One of my best friends, his father was a 'frogman' in Thunderball, and he appears in the credits.