[ExI] Jet suit paramedic tested

[Darin Sunley]

I'm no engineer, but just by eyeball, the energy density required to fit 10
minutes of flight time into a backpack that size is... concerning.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 9:53 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> BillK via extropy-chat
> >...Subject: [ExI] Jet suit paramedic tested
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> Jet suit paramedic tested in the Lake District 'could save lives'
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> <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54331994>
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> Quote:
> A jet suit for paramedics which would see patients reached in minutes by a
> "flying" medic ...BillK
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> Thanks BillK,
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> 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
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