The sign language interpreter’s obvious enthusiasm is contagious. I am going to grab some Kimchee from the fridge and watch again!
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Thats what that window was!! I thought I’d left chat roulette open again
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He just wanted to hot refuel the Hawk…
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He’s lucky he wasn’t flying a gazelle
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Medcenter air 1, acknowledge, you are intercepted.
You are MILES from home
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Like all other jet packs I think fuel, or lack thereof, would be what limits them to just prototypes or novelty items.
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Watching the rotor systems change is pretty amazing…
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I think that clip is showing the guy that makes them, rather than a solider. One down side to that system is that it takes quite a bit of core strength just to support yourself with arms like that and keep upright and stable. My arms would give out before the fuel… 
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My first thought: “This is likely the source of many UFO sightings”
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It is a hard limit to overcome, isn’t it. I’m sure the current models are lighter than the old James Bond jet packs, but apart from materials, there hasn’t really been a breakthrough in technology for something like this so the flight time would be too short to be useful.
Propeller driven drone-like backpacks come to mind as an alternative idea for an individual soldier to fly for longer but,looking at the current one-person electric multi-prop prototypes, they are nowhere near jet pack size, more like Cessna-size.
I guess that’s one area where we are still a little way off sci-fi…any word on how the antigravity bike development is going?
Yeah, but if they use it boat-to-boat boarding is quiet more than enough probably.
The issue in that case is if it’s silent enough to board a “hot” vessel without alerting the Tango and what sort of protection the specialists could have… they’re literally naked in the town square on approach…
Unless they can use it for rescue… can that thing carry 2 or three people? Unlikely, methinks.
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Those jet pack guys are desperately trying to create a market for their silly toy. The staged hiker rescue they demonstrated in the Lake District (IIRC) was embarrassing. This on on the boat was moreso. I couldn’t help but think of the Flamethrower guy in Battlefield 1. If you hit his tank enough he bbq’d spectacularly. You get the idea 
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