http://www.gadgetvenue.com/the-martin-jetpack-skip-bad-traffic-07305707/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gadgetvenue.com/the-martin-jetpack-skip-bad-traffic-07305707/#comment-193318 Ben Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:20:52 +0000 http://www.gadgetvenue.com/?p=6068#comment-193318 Fascinating! A schoolboy's dream indeed.... but better keep it as a dream, since it not only is *not* a jet-pack (no jet propulsion) but it seems to lack proper provision for occasional engine failures. A ballistic parachute is great at a decent altitude, but would you want to fall (unprotected) the length of an extended parachute? Or further? The parachute cannot hold you if you are at a height that is less than its length, now can it? And if you are already falling, it will take some distance for the parachute drag to take effect. Knowing my luck the machine would land on top of me. Like falling off the top of a church with a motorbike on your back..... Ouch! Fascinating! A schoolboy’s dream indeed…. but better keep it as a dream, since it not only is *not* a jet-pack (no jet propulsion) but it seems to lack proper provision for occasional engine failures. A ballistic parachute is great at a decent altitude, but would you want to fall (unprotected) the length of an extended parachute? Or further?
The parachute cannot hold you if you are at a height that is less than its length, now can it? And if you are already falling, it will take some distance for the parachute drag to take effect. Knowing my luck the machine would land on top of me. Like falling off the top of a church with a motorbike on your back….. Ouch!

]]> http://www.gadgetvenue.com/the-martin-jetpack-skip-bad-traffic-07305707/#comment-36497 Gadgets Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:41:41 +0000 http://www.gadgetvenue.com/?p=6068#comment-36497 From the video, it seems like gyro stabilizers may be needed? I realize that the handlers were there to protect against wind drift but they seemed to be putting more effort in than just making small corrections. From the video, it seems like gyro stabilizers may be needed? I realize that the handlers were there to protect against wind drift but they seemed to be putting more effort in than just making small corrections.

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