Steely eyed volunteers needed ...

[CoffmanStarter]

OMG the silly season comes early this year :eek:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/26/article-2284715-184D62C0000005DC-985_634x309.jpg

Fritz Unger and his friends from Hanover, Germany, have spent more than five years so far developing their one-man, jet-propelled wing. Once completed, the backpack-mounted aircraft, dubbed Skyflash, will be the smallest twin-engined aeroplane ever built and could herald a new era of personal air travel. The team behind it say that it should be able to hit top speeds of more than 200mph, with a flight ceiling of 26,000ft, all easily steered by the movement of the pilot's body.

Skyflash Project (http://www.gizmag.com/skyflash-jet-propelled-wing/26355/)

Coff.

[clicker]

S@d that, I'd rather try the Colditz glider than that and I don't have any kind of flying licence.

Presume steering while taxying is done by knuckle dragging? :)

[NutLoose]

Do you thnk he is trying to kiss his ass goodbye?

[CoffmanStarter]

I reckon Buster would be up for it :ok:

[NutLoose]

Yup, he'd make a good ass kisser :E

[Manandboy]

Not often we get advance notice of candidates for the Darwin Awards.

[500N]

Manandboy

That is a good one and very true.


I think he needs a prayer mat.

[Union Jack]

I think he needs a prayer mat.

Presumably because, if he gets airborne, he'll be:

"Comin’ in on a wing and a prayer ....":sad:

Jack

[Trim Stab]

They should mount a light machine gun on it. Then the Pentagon could spend $XXX billions developing a counter-measure for it.

[Courtney Mil]

F-35 Cancelled, Then What?

[500N]

They should find more like him, would make great flying targets !

[brokenlink]

26,000 feet ceiling then? Cant wait to see where they stick the oxygen bottle!

[CoffmanStarter]

I'm thinking he needs (1) a catapult launch, (2) a ski ramp arrangement and most importantly (3) steel toe caps for the "rotate" :E

[diginagain]

I think I can see where they got the idea for the launching-trolley;

http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/Me163/Me163_1.jpg

[marianoberna]

Hehehe, cool reference to the Darwin Awards :P

[GreenKnight121]

Someone else beat them to it... but with 4 engines, not 2:

Video: Jetman soars over Rio de Janeiro skyline - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9242760/Jetman-soars-over-Rio-de-Janeiro-skyline.html)

[Arm out the window]

The great thing about the Me163 was that if your guts didn't blow up on ascent due to expanding trapped gases, you'd blow up on landing when the dregs of the unburnt fuel sloshed together.

Probably similar results to look forward to if you fly the jet suit thing!

[CoffmanStarter]

GK121 ... The Breitling Buzz Lightyear guy has to jump out of a helicopter to fly ... and he's been whistling around the European Alps for a while ... completely different "challenge" to rushing down Tarmac to get airbourne :ok:

[Hempy]

does it come with twin controls for conversion training?

[Wensleydale]

26,000 feet ceiling then? Cant wait to see where they stick the oxygen
bottle!


To say nothing of the radio and transponder to allow him into controlled airspace.



all easily steered by the movement of the pilot's body


I wonder what the movement will be should he meet a windfarm at 200 mph. That may put paid to the O2 bottle storage idea.

[clicker]

Wensleydale,

But to jettison extra weight at that point would be a good idea.

[Ali Qadoo]

Landing just short of the cable would make your eyes water, that's for sure!

[clicker]

Depends whats used to trap the cable.

[Dysonsphere]

Well hes sure to get media coverage when he goes for it should be sad but entertaining assuming he dos't self terminate. :\

[dragartist]

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA520614

See page 14 Fig 25.
All the way from NZ if I recall. They never came back in 2009 or 2011.

Note YPG would not give clearance to fly or be dropped from one of their a/c