Apparently some AA pilots saw ‘a guy in a jetpack’ at 3,000 MSL on approach to LAX. If true, it would be pretty amazing, seeing as we don’t seem to yet have that kind of capability (functional jetpack with the power and fuel capacity to get that high, and also back down). So, what in the heck did they see? Also, why in the world would someone be stupid enough to fly in the approach path of jetliners? They are big and fat and not easily maneuverable and they sure as hell can’t stop. All pretty weird and kinda mysterious …
https://apnews.com/...fdaa665cd30979883880
Probably just Tom Cruise messing around.
Apparently some AA pilots saw ‘a guy in a jetpack’ at 3,000 MSL on approach to LAX. If true, it would be pretty amazing, seeing as we don’t seem to yet have that kind of capability (functional jetpack with the power and fuel capacity to get that high, and also back down). So, what in the heck did they see? Also, why in the world would someone be stupid enough to fly in the approach path of jetliners? They are big and fat and not easily maneuverable and they sure as hell can’t stop. All pretty weird and kinda mysterious …
https://apnews.com/...fdaa665cd30979883880
Ummm I think they do have the capability to get that high. according this article they can get as high as 18,000 ft…
Ummm I think they do have the capability to get that high. according this article they can get as high as 18,000 ft…
Not sure about that. With a fairly limited climb rate and only 5-10 min of endurance, based on the specs, its going to be impossible to make it to 18,000 ft (much less making it back down) with the fuel load available.
Even getting to 3,000 ft and back down will be very tight with those specs, and that’s with zero room for error (or with any reserve). On the other hand, operators of these things at this point are not likely to be super worried about such pedestrian things … you know, things like staying alive …
More specs here:
https://newatlas.com/…_medium=article-body
Paging Tony Stark…
Hmmm, jet pack? LA?
Could be only one thing!
LOL!! I dont think I would want to go up 20 ft in one of those things!
Ummm I think they do have the capability to get that high. according this article they can get as high as 18,000 ft…
Not sure about that. With a fairly limited climb rate and only 5-10 min of endurance, based on the specs, its going to be impossible to make it to 18,000 ft (much less making it back down) with the fuel load available.
Even getting to 3,000 ft and back down will be very tight with those specs, and that’s with zero room for error (or with any reserve). On the other hand, operators of these things at this point are not likely to be super worried about such pedestrian things … you know, things like staying alive …
More specs here:
https://newatlas.com/…_medium=article-body
What if they jumped out of a plane at 10k feet and were just messing around flying on the way down? That would be fun!
Is there any possibility at all that this is a hoax?
Maybe it is like the Joaquin Phoenix rap career.
Promo for a movie?
My first thought was that it was a helium balloon made & painted to look like a guy with a jetpack. That would be fairly easy to make, and I expect convincing enough to fool someone in a plane going by at several hundred knots.
Not sure what the purpose of such a hoax would be but there are a lot of bored people with time on their hands these days…
I was thinking it was a dummy in a jetpack, being flown by remote, like a drone. You could have 1/10 the weight in a dummy, so the specs of how high and how long would be way different than with an actual human…
It is LA after all, where folks put dummies in the passenger seats all the time, so they can get in the diamond lane…
Anyone remember Lawn Chair Larry from 1982? He tethered a bunch of helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and flew around Los Angeles area, reaching 16,000 ft.
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/lawn-chair-larry/
Coincidentally, there is now a report of David Blaine emulating Larry today.
Ummm I think they do have the capability to get that high. according this article they can get as high as 18,000 ft…
Not sure about that. With a fairly limited climb rate and only 5-10 min of endurance, based on the specs, its going to be impossible to make it to 18,000 ft (much less making it back down) with the fuel load available.
Even getting to 3,000 ft and back down will be very tight with those specs, and that’s with zero room for error (or with any reserve). On the other hand, operators of these things at this point are not likely to be super worried about such pedestrian things … you know, things like staying alive …
More specs here:
https://newatlas.com/…_medium=article-body
6,000 meters is the record.
https://scroll.in/...onomous-human-flight
According to the company, Reffet had reached a height of 100 meters in 8 seconds, 200 meters in 12, 500 meters in 19, and 1000 meters in 30 seconds – at an average speed of 130 knots.
LOL!! I don’t think I would want to go up 20 ft in one of those things!
Isn’t there a saying with the hang-glider/para-sailing community “Never go any higher than you’re willing to fall?”
I could be wrong