FAA Reports of man in Jet Pack over Los Angeles

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asdfghwy

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thats a lot of trust in jetpack to be flying at 3000 feet. although I guess after a certain height <100ft the risk is almost all the same?
 
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Originally Posted: 2003-12-31 13:26

Where's my personal Jet Pack?!
I am sick and tired of waiting for the personal jet packs we were promised when we were growing up in the 60’s! All those black and white films I saw in school of what the future would be like INCLUDED PERSONAL JET PACKS! It’s 40 fucking years later and even our cars still require that WE STEER THEM (also a lie from those films about the future).

The only “big” invention of the future we’ve gotten so far is the fucking SEGWAY. It’s a SCOOTER, dude! We had scooters in the 60’s! “Ooh! You can stand on it!” You can stand on a fucking scooter too, ass! Yeah, but, it won’t fall over no matter what!” A scooter is only THREE INCHES FROM THE GROUND, dumbass. FALLING over was never like, my primary concern.

I am sick and tired of sitting in traffic FOR HOURS. I have been living with it for twenty years. In 1980, TWENTY years after the promise of a personal jet pack that would fly you anywhere in a minute, I was still sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. But, I thought, just hang in there, SOON, they will have personal jet packs, FOR SURE by the year 1992. Now here it is 2003! It’s the fucking twenty first century dude!

And to the inventor of the Segway, and Bill Gates who I’M SURE had something to do with it, because he’s a dick! You should have your bare asses WHIPPED for trying to create a big stir about the SEGWAY before it came out by saying shit like: IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE LIVE. That LED ME TO BELIEVE: PERSONAL JET PACK!!!! NEVER NEVER NEVER CLAIM that AN ELECTRIC SCOOTER will change SHIT!!!! IT’S A FUCKING SCOOTER! When we can FLY TO WORK. THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY I LIVE. WHEN WE CAN DRINK BEER AND EAT CANDY AND LOSE WEIGHT, THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE LIVE. WHEN I CAN GET A FUCKING HUMAN BEING ON THE GODDAMN TELEPHONE AT THE FUCKING DMV/PHARMACY/CABLE COMPANY THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY I LIVE. -- NOT A SCOOTER!

And stop trying to make it seem cool to have a Segway. IT’S NOT. Dick Tracy (written in the fucking 1930’s) had a FLYING Jet pack, not a scooter, buttwipe It FLEW! In 1930! That’s before we had MICROWAVE OVENS and penicillin, and organ transplants. 73 years ago! I want my personal jet pack! WHER IS MY PERSONAL JET PACK! Everyone, if you email congress and tell them to quit throwing away that dumb ass money on science and funnel it to flying jet pack research, WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!

PERSONAL JET PACK!!!!!!!
 
NorCalAthlete

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Forget Elon Musk being Iron Man - if he comes out with a consumer grade personal jetpack that actually works reliably and everything, I'd rather have that. Imagine commuting from Santa Cruz to San Jose via jetpack and just landing on the roof of your building. Or commuting across the bay bridge without having to deal with the traffic.
 
auntiebling

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asdfghwy said:
thats a lot of trust in jetpack to be flying at 3000 feet. although I guess after a certain height <100ft the risk is almost all the same?
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assuming the pilot has a parachute setup (maybe not possible, as they're flamable?) the altitude is a bit of a good thing as it wold give more time to deploy the chute

NorCalAthlete said:
Forget Elon Musk being Iron Man - if he comes out with a consumer grade personal jetpack that actually works reliably and everything, I'd rather have that. Imagine commuting from Santa Cruz to San Jose via jetpack and just landing on the roof of your building. Or commuting across the bay bridge without having to deal with the traffic.
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like electric cars and commute lane stickers, the first 1000 or so would enjoy it. after that, all the second wave and after will just hit each other and ruin it. the FAA is going to restrict the everloving shit out of it too. most of the bay area is in the airspace of a pretty major airport already, good luck not getting sucked into a 737 engine
 
Climber

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scootergmc said:
I just want to see all the flame-out solutions .
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In hang gliding we had ballistic chutes, if you had the money, a throw chute if you didn't. The ballistic chute would save you if deployed under 100 feet, the throw chute required much more time to deploy.
 
afm199

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NorCalAthlete said:
Forget Elon Musk being Iron Man - if he comes out with a consumer grade personal jetpack that actually works reliably and everything, I'd rather have that. Imagine commuting from Santa Cruz to San Jose via jetpack and just landing on the roof of your building. Or commuting across the bay bridge without having to deal with the traffic.
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The only thing stopping that from happening is physics and chemistry.
 
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asdfghwy

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Most people can barely drive extremely safe and easy to handle vehicles. I can't even imagine jet pack traffic consisting of the general public
 
Climber

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asdfghwy said:
Most people can barely drive extremely safe and easy to handle vehicles. I can't even imagine jet pack traffic consisting of the general public
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People manage, for the most part, on ski slopes.

Not that there aren't morons up there who inevitably cause a collision, but most manage.
 
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