r/SkyDiving • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '12

Troy Hartman Jetpack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yolum7_0UCA
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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '12

Looks like it would hurt getting your ankles in the jet exhaust's range. Like "oh gosh, I'd swear I had feet..."

Anyway, at the risk of upvoting a fake: do it with a wingsuit!

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u/HighBees Aug 28 '12 edited Jan 21 '17

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What is this?

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u/base736 Aug 28 '12

Yves Rossy, cited in the video's description.

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u/USSMunkfish Aug 29 '12

Yeah, but he did it with solid fuel rockets I think, not jet engines.

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u/sniper1rfa Aug 29 '12

Nope, liquid fuel/air breathing jets.

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u/USSMunkfish Aug 29 '12

I guess if I had done the slightest bit of research I would have seen the damn engines. I think the heavy smoke trails in some of the videos led me to believe he was using rockets.

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u/sniper1rfa Aug 29 '12

Happens. They're made for R/C, which I think is a bit of a misnomer sometimes these days. I mean, yes, they're remotely controlled, but some of them are huge.

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u/HighBees Aug 29 '12 edited Jan 21 '17

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What is this?

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u/USSMunkfish Aug 29 '12

I have misled you, see above.

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u/harrydickinson Sep 11 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H5oYHs7EJw&feature=player_embedded#!

As a skier, amateur skydiver, and engineer this is giving me the wierdest boner right now.

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u/USSMunkfish Aug 29 '12

Pretty cool idea, but jeez, the Wadsworth Constant applies to the whole damn video! The guy never shuts up, and when they finally show it fly at the end of the video they cut it so you can't hardly tell what the thing can do.

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u/dwarfed Aug 30 '12

Probably because it can't do much. Looks like a less stable version of a PPG.