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Old 26 September 2008, 03:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Guy Flies Over English Channel
...with Jet-Wing Back-Pack

Swiss man flies over Channel on jet wing - Yahoo! News

Now if they could only start building those flying cars we were promised in the 50s...

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Old 26 September 2008, 04:16 PM   #2 (permalink)
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We sat by the TV today & watched. Looked great up till the landing-ouch
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Old 26 September 2008, 05:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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...and the grand canyon will be next!
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Old 26 September 2008, 08:30 PM   #4 (permalink)
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...and the grand canyon will be next!
That'll only use a couple of liters of fuel....unless you're talking about length...that's 446 km (or 277 mi), ten times the width of the Channel, over an hour of flight time for this guy.
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Old 27 September 2008, 01:13 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Here is the film about his flight across the channel
Extraordinaire!

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Old 27 September 2008, 06:19 AM   #6 (permalink)
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And he did it without an airplane!
Why did we have to wait for Bleriot when it could have been done without the plane? =0)
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That'll only use a couple of liters of fuel....unless you're talking about length...that's 446 km (or 277 mi), ten times the width of the Channel, over an hour of flight time for this guy.
He surely havent meant just crossing it...
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Old 27 September 2008, 07:24 AM   #8 (permalink)
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That man's flight is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long while!

Maybe someday we'll all have jet-wings.

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that is sooo cool! congrats to the jet pack man and his team!
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