[ExI] Jet suit paramedic tested

[spike at rainier66.com]

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Jet suit paramedic tested in the Lake District 'could save lives'

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54331994>

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A jet suit for paramedics which would see patients reached in minutes by a
"flying" medic ...BillK
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Thanks BillK,

Sure there is the lifesaving angle to it, but think of the sports and profit
angle: customers would pay a coupla hundred for a flight, proles could bet
on the probability that the customer lands without injury or fatality, or if
they should fail, then the parameds could fly to the customer, administer
last rites, that sorta thing.

This is a really cool idea.  These sorts of notions are always inherently
limited by short range, such as we saw in the first public jet pack
demonstration which was at a football game back in the 1960s: the pilot took
off from the parking lot, flew over the fans and landed on the 50.  It did
not become a standard halftime show stunt.  

Guessing they are still using catalyzed hydrogen peroxide, which will limit
the notion to about 30 seconds of flight, assuming the pilot wants to walk
with the thing afterwards.

spike