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A "useable" jetpack for £50k!!!
eznfrank - 13/3/10 at 07:05 PM

According to this LINKY a New Zealand company are selling jet packs with a 30 mile range which don't require a pilots licence for £50k. I want one!!!

Confused but excited. - 13/3/10 at 07:34 PM

No you don't, they do not glide very well at all.

designer - 13/3/10 at 07:43 PM

You can buy a plane and learn to fly for less!!

tegwin - 13/3/10 at 08:15 PM

Thats not a jet pack though...... its a mini helicoptery ducted fan vectory thing...

MikeRJ - 13/3/10 at 08:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by designer
You can buy a plane and learn to fly for less!!


Really? How much less?

Simon - 13/3/10 at 08:53 PM

Well, I knew a bloke who bought a perfectly useable microlight for £750 + a couple of grand for licence.

As for "jet pack", they look like they carried on where Solotrek exoskeleton left off.



Fortunately the design is such that (in the same way Caterham can't copyright the general design of the 7) anyone will be able to make one without copyright issues

ATB

Simon

tegwin - 13/3/10 at 11:28 PM

It seems like a very inafficient way to travel..

An airplane gets lift from the wings, a helicopter gets extra lift through translational lift of the rotor blades..

that thing will ONLY get lift from the direct input of energy to the fans... there is no aerodynamic advantage...

David Jenkins - 14/3/10 at 09:45 AM

I don't care whether it's jet or ducted fan - I want one!

Interesting to compare it to the two others - they perform short, frantic journeys and look barely in control. The last one couldn't stop rotating.

This one looks in total control, moving round and pointing wherever the pilot wants to go. I wonder if the two black things behind the pilot's knees have something to do with stability - they were moving continuously, even when the craft was stationary.

tegwin - 14/3/10 at 10:30 AM

I would suspect that this is the first one that uses proper computer/gyro control..... THats whats keeping it so stable... loose the computer... loose your life lol!!!

Would be cooll... I wonder what sort of license you would need here in CAA land...

Simon - 14/3/10 at 06:00 PM

Nah, I reckon it's got inbuilt stabiliity - engine in rear, pilot in front, balanced thrust from twin fans and all the weight hanging down means without input (in windfree area), it only wants to go up and down. Those vanes moving around will give brill control.

Have a look at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlO0RTCXUpE

for clear use of vanes and see how weel they work

ATB

Simon