I've tried hang gliding (with a high efficiency wing..) can't say it's my cup of tea..
How about "air-boarding" ? A jet engine propelled sky-board?
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I've tried hang gliding (with a high efficiency wing..) can't say it's my cup of tea..
How about "air-boarding" ? A jet engine propelled sky-board?
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Practical not.. 10 minutes flight from the various jetpacks either the hydrogen peroxide steam jet (Bell Rocket Pack of the James Bond Era), or the Kerosene 1000 horsepower micro-jet engine...
Richard Browning - the founder of the organization "Gravity" and chief test pilot and innovator talks about his beginnings with the flying jetpack (2 minutes 46 seconds).
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More on the Colorado School of Mines research lab behind the suit build:
https://stebnerlab.mines.edu/mines-partners-with-adam-savage-to-build-3d-printed-ti-iron-man-suit/
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Adam Savage (Mythbusters) and personal jetpack flight
Adam gets a chance to test out a real to life flying backpack system produced by a civilian company called GRAVITY..
Later Adam contacted the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) to have them...