It's A Bird...It's a Plane...Its..............

[Jack Cook]

[url]http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html
I can hear Bob Deimert now saying "I can make 5000 of these and we can defend Canada!" [/url]

[DoraNineFan]

This is a good video of Jet-Man in action. It's definitely a beautiful way to see the Swiss Alps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4WZmp0_jw

This video shows a little more of the technical details.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXxkWXncuo

Rossy is working on the next prototype with more endurance and capabilities.

[tom d. friedman]

i want to be his insurance underwriter the wings must open on free fall & lock into position with a hefty mechanism, but then jettisonable upon decent. hope that system has a back up in case of failure!! what is the speed & duration?? better stuff than buck rogers or 007. i wonder if they sold any to governments or bigshots??

[DoraNineFan]

i want to be his insurance underwriter the wings must open on free fall & lock into position with a hefty mechanism, but then jettisonable upon decent. hope that system has a back up in case of failure!! what is the speed & duration?? better stuff than buck rogers or 007. i wonder if they sold any to governments or bigshots??

The performance figures are listed in the credits at the end of the first video I liked above. The endurance was 5 minutes, with the next prototype increasing that to 10 minutes. I think the backup system is the parachute he lands with.

No doubt, there are probably some special forces applications for this, even as a non-powered version.

[lestweforget]

That's my Christmas present sorted then I wish!!!!!