Do you think these could be come the next small thing in military "Aviation"?

[NutLoose]

There is another place you could stick the thermometer then, and I don't mean your mouth

[Danny42C]

Don't fancy it at my age. Fella called Icarus tried it and came unstuck. Can see why he prefers to fly over water (SAR chase inflatibles have some fun, though !)

Danny,

[langleybaston]

QUOTE:

There is another place you could stick the thermometer then, and I don't mean your mouth

Oh how extremely co arse!

[GlobalNav]

This is what naval aviation always should have been.

[NutLoose]

QUOTE:

There is another place you could stick the thermometer then, and I don't mean your mouth

Oh how extremely co arse!

I should imagine hurtling skyward to the cloud base they would be well and truly clenched, with no chance of it dropping out , well, unless you have an engine failure that is, and then would go into pucker mode.

[Brewers Droop]

Wow!

Another strong field of candidates for the Darwin Awards this year.....

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

[Wageslave]

As to what powers it, at 1:56 there is a brief glimpse of six(?) glowing red discs/circular objects under the board. I'd originally thought a rocket the motor most likely (perhaps H2O2 catalytic type for simplicity) but these do look more like turbines (model jet engines). Six for redundancy would certainly make sense as a failure of a sole power source would have a very unhappy result.
I think a damn good life jacket is more important than a parachute.

"Model" jet engines can produce up to 50lb thrust, apparently, and cost under $5,000. Smaller ones much cheaper. Looks quite doable, if you have the cojones to fly it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztx2Wud7-hY

[Tourist]

Expensive to make a slight miscalculation.....

I can't imagine that any turbine will take well to a sudden dunking at even low power let alone whilst working hard.