
Two people fly jetpacks over Dubai [video] - gmays
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/5/11/8587941/jetpacks-yves-rossy-dubai-balloon-boy
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zeeed
That vid just makes you want to go afk and DO something.

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ListeningPie
Are they flying or falling with style?

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rm445
More towards the latter, it appears. They're certainly air-launched and
parachute-landed. Still I think there's a reasonable case that you should call
it flight if they are capable of straight level powered flight while the fuel
lasts, but I don't think they're quite there.

The website cites a flight time of 6 to 13 minutes - I suspect that is the
peak of the trade-off between launch weight, fuel duration and descent time.
Rather than 6-13 minutes of powered flight followed by the equivalent of a
parachute jump.

(EDIT: I've just seen on the developer's wikipedia entry that he claims stable
level flight has been achieved. Very impressive - though one might still
conjecture that that might only be achievable at certain lower fuel levels).

Depending on the amount of control the pilot has, I'd expect them to be
capable of levelling out and making short ascents, basically trading speed for
height. And above all it looks like great FUN!

