2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221566#Comment_221566 2010-02-25T19:53:24-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Greasemonkey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4625

Huff Post - The Martin Aircraft Company has created the first jetpack that will be commercially available, the Daily Mail reports. The jetpack has a height of five feet, width of ...

Huff Post -

The Martin Aircraft Company has created the first jetpack that will be commercially available, the Daily Mail reports.

The jetpack has a height of five feet, width of five-and-a-half feet and a length of five feet, and features a dual-propeller construction that uses fans to provide lift instead of jets of exhaust gas.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221567#Comment_221567 2010-02-25T19:54:12-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Rootfireember http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1551

oh my.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221569#Comment_221569 2010-02-25T19:58:25-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 howyadoin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1675

Good. Maybe now people will shut the fuck up about jetpacks for awhile.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221586#Comment_221586 2010-02-25T21:21:30-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 COMTE http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=627

Meh, that's just a couple of fans-on-steroids strapped to that guy's back. WE WERE PROMISED ROCKETEER-STYLE FLAME-SHOOTING-OUT-OUR-ASS jet packs!

WE WERE PROMISED ROCKETEER-STYLE FLAME-SHOOTING-OUT-OUR-ASS jet packs!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221588#Comment_221588 2010-02-25T21:29:54-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 James Puckett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2911

Oh wow. This is going to generate some really great headlines. And that will be before we have to ban rednecks from riding them around in wildlife preserves.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221597#Comment_221597 2010-02-25T22:45:40-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 rickiep00h http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2930

I only want it if it will jump me between dimensions, RASL-style. Otherwise, I'm waiting for my fucking Rocketeer jetpack.

Otherwise, I'm waiting for my fucking Rocketeer jetpack.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221599#Comment_221599 2010-02-25T23:01:55-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 revaladdinsane http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2861

Looks just like the jetpack that Chris Sprouse drew for Global Frequency.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221602#Comment_221602 2010-02-25T23:09:45-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Laemeur http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7234

I wonder how much it weighs. I wonder because it would be interesting to see, if it's light enough, how someone who flies it for a while would learn to use their legs for stabilization and ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221610#Comment_221610 2010-02-26T00:21:27-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Illogic http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3930

You'd have to fly pretty high up to avoid making people deaf from the looks of it...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221619#Comment_221619 2010-02-26T03:17:49-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Brent Wilcox http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1653

Okay, then where's my flying car?

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221641#Comment_221641 2010-02-26T05:14:53-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 256 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4827

Surely a "jetpack" that doesn't employ jets is not, in fact, a jetpack? Personal helicopter, boys. Been around since the '50s.

jets is not, in fact, a jetpack?

Personal helicopter, boys. Been around since the '50s.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221654#Comment_221654 2010-02-26T06:38:55-08:00 2010-02-26T06:44:57-08:00 rickiep00h http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2930

Well a jet is, from an engineering standpoint, a machine that takes a low-pressure incoming fluid (in this case, air), compresses it, and spits it out the other end at high pressure to create thrust. ...

Wiki source here.

EDIT: Yes, yes, a rocket is technically a jet, too. But my point is that this is likely some kind of turbofan, rather than strictly a helicopter/turboprop.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221669#Comment_221669 2010-02-26T07:59:32-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Seantaclaus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6498

On the one hand, it's bulky, and it can't go for a long period of time. On the other hand, think of the potential for remote personal rescue situations where helicopters and such can't reach easily ...

(provided that there's actual lift, rather than simply hover capacity).]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221675#Comment_221675 2010-02-26T08:53:09-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 city creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4530

i can haz jetpack then? or not? no? no?

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221680#Comment_221680 2010-02-26T09:20:43-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Redwynd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=653

Until it comes equipped with paintball gattling guns, I'll get by with my own two feet. When it -does-, however.....

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7789&Focus=221899#Comment_221899 2010-02-27T19:10:04-08:00 2013-05-24T16:34:12-07:00 Salgood Sam http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1713

Wait, i thought we were promised anti-gravity boots?