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Crossing the English Channel by personal jet
09-26-2008, 01:53 PM
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Crossing the English Channel by personal jet
Well, it's about freakin' time:
Fusion Man makes historic Channel flight | Lifestyle | Reuters
The jet man has taken his personal wing across the English Channel. Of course it required an aircraft-assisted launch, and flame-retardant pants, and it's not quite the same as boosting out of your back yard for the morning work commute. But it's close enough that I'm willing to accept its fulfillment of the 1950s promise of the personal jetpack.
Now all I need is my jet car, but I think they're getting pretty close there too...
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09-26-2008, 02:49 PM
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Faster than the Gossamer Albatross but not as fuel efficient.
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09-26-2008, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Nords
Now all I need is my jet car, but I think they're getting pretty close there too...
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Here ya go....a street legal jet powered VW Beetle
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09-26-2008, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Goonie
Here ya go....a street legal jet powered VW Beetle
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OK, I guess I asked for that, but what I meant was a flying jet car...
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09-26-2008, 08:03 PM
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Where've you been? The Pinto wasn't jet powered, but it was flying back in 1973 - Mitzar
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09-26-2008, 08:43 PM
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Where've you been? The Pinto wasn't jet powered, but it was flying back in 1973 -
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Amazing. Maybe I should shift the emphasis a little: a flying jet car...
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09-26-2008, 08:49 PM
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09-26-2008, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Nords
Amazing. Maybe I should shift the emphasis a little: a flying jet car...
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Nords - How about a jet surfboard?
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09-27-2008, 10:51 AM
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Isn't that the infamous "exploding gas tank" car? What would Nader say? I wonder which is more dangerous?
Wiki tells me the inventor/engineer/company founder died in a "fiery crash". NTSB said bad welds.
(others say he was actually shot down by the CIA in a government conspiracy )
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09-27-2008, 02:06 PM
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Eh, made me look. It seems to be in the same development limbo as the flying Pinto:
Jet-powered surfboard to go on sale
I think if I motored out to the lineup on one of these I'd be beaten to death by the other surfers, and not a judge in the land would overturn the "justifiable homicide" defense...
Besides if it was even marginally operable then we'd be seeing Laird Hamilton YouTube videos all over 80-foot waves.
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09-27-2008, 03:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Well, it's about freakin' time:
Fusion Man makes historic Channel flight | Lifestyle | Reuters
The jet man has taken his personal wing across the English Channel. Of course it required an aircraft-assisted launch, and flame-retardant pants, and it's not quite the same as boosting out of your back yard for the morning work commute. But it's close enough that I'm willing to accept its fulfillment of the 1950s promise of the personal jetpack.
Now all I need is my jet car, but I think they're getting pretty close there too...
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I want one of those.
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09-27-2008, 06:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Amazing. Maybe I should shift the emphasis a little: a flying jet car...
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Hey, Nords,
How about this? ::MOLLER::
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09-30-2008, 10:13 AM
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I've been watching that one for years. I really really wanna believe...
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