200mph and several thousand feet and 10 minute flight time for what he's wearing is so incredible that I doubt it's true. If it is however, he will soon hear some noises at night after which he will wake up in a cell out of which I will only let him after he has given me all his knowledge on this thing. Don't at me like that! It's either me or creeps who want to use it for evil purposes. I only want to fulfill a life long wish.
I'm still HUGELY disappointed that we all haven't been issued the jetpack in Thunderball. That was supposed to be the future, yet we never got it.
Oh, and the guy who flew the pack for the scene is a real p_ssy for insisting on wearing a helmet; the timid son of a bitch would have been killed from that height, helmet or no, had he crashed. Pathetic.
I'm still HUGELY disappointed that we all haven't been issued the jetpack in Thunderball. That was supposed to be the future, yet we never got it.
Oh, and the guy who flew the pack for the scene is a real p_ssy for insisting on wearing a helmet; the timid son of a bitch would have been killed from that height, helmet or no, had he crashed. Pathetic.
Yeah I remember the jet pack scenes from Lost In Space and thought, that helmet isn't gonna do much good if he dropped like a stone at the height he was flying!
IIRC, the Thunderball flyer guy was on camera on one of the bonus features braying on about how he refused to do the scene without a helmet. What a coward.
What isn't clear is how the suit clearly must absorb stress and provide stability.
Those boosters alone would simply wrench his arms up and the shoulders would take the shock. So the suit is clearly important. Also, some boosters can be relocated on his legs in some videos.
Its short-term application would be river rescue, and air-sea rescue. Not reconnaissance, there are drones!
If the military hasn't already a fully functional system in one of it's many secret locations, this system will be developed, as with most other things, for killing and committing violence first, and saving lives and benefitting mankind somewhere much later in its life.
Seinfeld 2: "Skydiving. Do we really need the helmets? Look, if your parachute doesn't open... that helmet is now wearing YOU for protection. Somewhere in a parachute locker one helmet is saying to the other 'good thing that head was below me or I would have gotten really hurt'"
The contraption above is completely non-functional. What good are you without the use of your hands? What they had in the 60's works far better than this thing.
