<div dir="ltr">Yeah, if one of those blades lets go during flight the pilot may want, as Dumbledore put it, "to retire in order to spend more time with his remaining limbs".</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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They have big plans for these jet suits.<br>
<<a href="https://gravity.co" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gravity.co</a>><br>
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The Jet Suit<br>
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Power; 1050bhp<br>
Turbines; 5<br>
RPM; 120,000<br>
Fuel; Jet A1 or Diesel<br>
Dry weight; 27kg<br>
Flight time; 5-10 minutes<br>
Current speed record; 136.891 kph<br>
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They appear to have training schemes and hire available for test flights.<br>
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TURBINES!<br>
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Ok then, you can count me out, thanks: this is madness.<br>
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That would explain how they are getting ten minutes of flight out of this<br>
without cooking themselves, but oh dear, four turbines spinning at that<br>
speed, mercy.<br>
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spike<br>
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