[ExI] Jet suit paramedic tested

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 16:12:55 UTC 2020


On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 16:54, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________


They have big plans for these jet suits.
<https://gravity.co>

The Jet Suit

Power; 1050bhp
Turbines; 5
RPM; 120,000
Fuel; Jet A1 or Diesel
Dry weight; 27kg
Flight time; 5-10 minutes
Current speed record; 136.891 kph
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They appear to have training schemes and hire available for test flights.

BillK


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