mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 11/10/04 at 09:26 PM |
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I belive I can fly or die trying
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5525708121&category=2979
Free postage but you will have to pay for your own box and hole to put it in. Some brightspark will try it with out the training = Darwin award
[Edited on 11-10-04 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 11/10/04 at 09:41 PM |
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LOCOST FLYING OR WHAT
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Hellfire
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| posted on 11/10/04 at 10:34 PM |
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Strange how they don't include a coffin 
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James
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| posted on 12/10/04 at 07:59 AM |
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Yer bunch o' Jessies!
If it was quarter the price I'd give it a go! 
James
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philgregson
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| posted on 12/10/04 at 09:04 AM |
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You bunch of lightweights - how difficult can it be
It is a big parachute! When people fall out of planes and stuff they float when atatched to a parachute - safe as houses.
Flying around already attatched to a big floaty parachute thingy has got to be one step safer than one of those big new fangled metal aeroplanes -
everybody knows that if you fall out of the sky attatched to a big lump of metal you are definately not going to float.
Basic phisics - thats all.
Phil
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Peteff
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| posted on 12/10/04 at 09:13 AM |
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A bloke I used to work with had a great philosophy on this kind of thing including climbing ladders. His motto was "I'll go as high as you
like as long as I can keep one foot on the floor" .
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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blueshift
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| posted on 12/10/04 at 09:52 AM |
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It would be funnier if he was an amputee.
I'd love to do paramotoring. Locost paramotor anyone? I'm sure we can knock one up without too much bother.
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derf
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| posted on 12/10/04 at 12:57 PM |
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It's actually quite fun, I was taken for a ride in one a few years ago, not fast, but it does fly, and it doesnt need a runway more than 25ft or
a pilots license, or FAA approval.
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Peteff
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| posted on 12/10/04 at 01:23 PM |
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It would be funnier if he was an amputee.
Why? My mate Kev has a false leg and he can still climb a ladder. His new leg is carbon fibre, flash or what?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Simon
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| posted on 13/10/04 at 08:15 PM |
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"It is a big parachute! When people fall out of planes and stuff they"
When I was in France microlighting in '99, there was a guy at the same school was taking up (flexwing as opposed to 3 axis) microlighting and
he'd been paramotoring when the canopy folded at about 100 - 200 feet.
He was a bit sore, but decided to give it a rest!
"and it doesnt need a runway more than 25ft or a pilots license, or FAA approval"
In the UK you need a minimum of (IIRC) 4hours tuition and a few exams.
Also, having watched them taking off from the field behind work - you definitely need more than 25ft! Yoy may get off the ground in 25ft, but
you'll only be 25ft of the ground in 250ft!!!
ATB
Simon
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spunky
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| posted on 13/10/04 at 08:32 PM |
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I do a spot a paragliding and living near lincolnshire could do with a paramotor.
Its classed as a foot launched aircraft and is completely unregulated.
That said anyone attempting it without tuition will bury themselves face first into the ground on first attempt of a launch and once they realise you
have to run bolt upright they will find themselves running around in cicles cos of the prop torque....
Very funny to watch
John
The reckless man may not live as long......
But the cautious man does not live at all.....
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Peteff
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| posted on 13/10/04 at 09:11 PM |
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Crop circles eh!!!
Now we know what causes them, it's self taught paragliders not alien spacecraft.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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andylancaster3000
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| posted on 13/10/04 at 09:34 PM |
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Contender for the Darwin award!!
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