Remarkable achievement I’m friends with the safety advisor, this has been in the planning for years! Enjoy
Very cool, but to be honest, I'm not sure what has been achieved there? An incredible amount of money has been spent there to prove that if you have incredible amounts of money, you can make a personal jet for your back that your personal team can help you launch in controlled conditions. Can't really see the point or the application?.... Oh, James Bond! I forgot about him! Sorry... Spose I'm the jetpack grinch!
The normal flights are launched from helicopters, this is the first time a ground launch has been undertaken, the royal family provide some funding.......this will be the future of personal travel in the not too distant.
How much does it cost compared to just driving there? And how is that likely to even ever be close? Sorry, I,m grinching again, but it seems to me just a very rich mans toy and nothing else.
That’s probably what they said about the Horseless carriage. You have to experiment if you want to move something forward.
That's assuming everyone can pass the flying test and get a pilot's licence..... ....and what happens when what would be a coachload takes off? A flying convoy perhaps? Yep, like putting rollers under it or fixing wheels to it..........rubbish skips are bit like that.
Use the best quality wax available , to stick the various bits together ... .... ask Icarus .... I'm sure he would give the same advice ....
Thanks for the link 2 mins 30 seconds in to 2 mins 46 seconds was incredible, had to watch it 3 times.
I love it but I can't see it taking off (pun intended). For one thing, the era of fossil fuelled vehicles is in its twilight years and secondly, and probably more importantly, I can't see any sane govt licensing it for use as personal transport. Just look at the shocking standard of driving on our roads at the moment, but then consider that a significant number of failures to pay attention due to being distracted by Facebook, minor accidents or otherwise trivial mechanical failures will result in human beings and small aircraft full of fuel weighing perhaps 300kg combined raining down out of the sky onto the hapless people below. Our milquetoast nannying govt won't even licence electric scooters so the chances of this ever coming to Britain are minimal, but I can't see anywhere else welcoming it either tbh.
I'd have been really worried by the choppy uppy me thing nearby filming and those big crunching things in front with windows.
I hate ladders (and scaff) too. But then I'm a paramotor and paraglider pilot and I'm perfectly happy at a few thousand feet dangling from some string and an old duvet. Height, and the fear of, is a very strange thing.
