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May
This Finnish skydiver decided to be the first man ever to sky dive with turbines attached to his legs. Making him look like a real human airplane. The technology is simple, its two small turbines from miniature fighter jets. Looks awesome but you still gotta be pretty crazy to try this. VIDEO->
Steve said,
6-6-2006 in 12:52:29 at 64.68.115.166Awesome. I envisioned the same idea. Any one know links to more info?
Jaime said,
8-12-2006 in 14:02:45 at 72.204.226.29Am I the only one who saw this as potential Milatary/Airforce equipment?
High T3ch Magazine mention,
6-6-2006 at 05:34:57 ping from 68.178.211.80[...] With this cool looking device you can turn a normal free fall into a 200km flight. Atleast that is the distance that they are hopeing to reach. For now they have not tested the wing with mini turbines and without them the wing can glide for 50km. It holds about 2 litres of fuel and Im sure that those previously posted ‘’mini jet engines‘’ would help too. I can already see the next evolution of James Bond movies - gliding for 200km and then diving underwater with this wing as a submarine. [...]
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Bizak said,
5-25-2006 in 05:58:00 at 83.251.140.222I just got an flawless idea how aliens can cross us borders whit out any one every seeing them =) If it didnt sounded like a real jet i would say halo jumpers were outdated.