Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in jetpack" flying alongside them WTF?!?
Not sure I'd put much faith in the self-preservation instincts of someone who intentionally flies a jetpack to withing a few hundred yards of the LAX approach path...
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You mean like this?
https://youtu.be/TgACwfl6FBI
https://youtu.be/TgACwfl6FBI
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Jetpack
Joking aside, what about this?
https://gravity.co/
Those guys do make a jet pack, they claim it can fly a person for 5-10 minutes. The question is, how quickly can it climb to 3000 ft?
https://gravity.co/
Those guys do make a jet pack, they claim it can fly a person for 5-10 minutes. The question is, how quickly can it climb to 3000 ft?
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Or if you are already dying - air ambulance units are already testing these things for mountain rescue, see https://www.greatnorthairambulance.c...uit-paramedic/
I'm not sure how it will compare with a chopper on speed of response, but it'll certainly be a lot quicker than walking up, and probably a lot cheaper than the chopper so you could have more of them available. Early days yet, but looks like there may well be niches where this technology will deliver and thrive.
I'm not sure how it will compare with a chopper on speed of response, but it'll certainly be a lot quicker than walking up, and probably a lot cheaper than the chopper so you could have more of them available. Early days yet, but looks like there may well be niches where this technology will deliver and thrive.
Yes, and you can be sure that they won't be flying higher than a height AGL that (hopefully) won't kill you if your means of staying aloft fails, unlike our LAX friend.
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This is how the Mountain Rescue in Austria are evacuating injured backcountry skiers. Even at the resorts, I saw injured skiers being longlined out in St Anton ski area.
Looks like a much faster way to get an injured person evacuated than this "Jet Pack". Of course you need good weather too.
Really amazing flying , by the helicopter pilot in some wind.
Looks like a much faster way to get an injured person evacuated than this "Jet Pack". Of course you need good weather too.
Really amazing flying , by the helicopter pilot in some wind.
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He's baaaaack......
LA Times Article Oct 14
Personally I think it's an RC airplane like in the video Sawbones62 posted earlier.
LA Times Article Oct 14
Personally I think it's an RC airplane like in the video Sawbones62 posted earlier.
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If the crews said they saw a person wearing a jetpack, that's probably exactly what they saw.
These things have been around for a while. I can't post links yet, but look up JB-9 JetPack Flight on YouTube, amazing flight around the Statue of Liberty.
These things have been around for a while. I can't post links yet, but look up JB-9 JetPack Flight on YouTube, amazing flight around the Statue of Liberty.
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On this type ,probably the start of some interesting aerobatics,a good photo/video op for sure 
But there are much better types around , a French guy has currently the lead , :https://www.zapata.com/en/#intro
But there are much better types around , a French guy has currently the lead , :https://www.zapata.com/en/#intro
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Supposedly caught on camera: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comment...ying_near_lax/
Could be fake. The size just doesn't make sense. Whatever it is, it would be huge to appear so big that far in the distance
Could be fake. The size just doesn't make sense. Whatever it is, it would be huge to appear so big that far in the distance
The only way to make a judgement as to the size of the flying object, whatever it was, is to accurately know the focal length of the lens and the size of the camera's image on the sensor of the camera. We don't know either of those things nor do we know the distance.
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The camera is focused on the aircraft taking off and not making any attempt to follow the incredible sight just above it. A dead giveaway that it is fake.
Plus the jetpack significantly decelerates before pivoting, instead of the other way around. So the person who set that up did not even take this seriously.
Plus the jetpack significantly decelerates before pivoting, instead of the other way around. So the person who set that up did not even take this seriously.