To be honest I don't think that design will work. Vertical takeoff and landing systems are notoriously difficult to fly. It took them years to get the Osbrey system working properly.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, C.W. Badie <astromancer2...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > Um...not meaning to break the rhythm here, but when I look at this thing, > all I can think about is how uncomfortable it must get when they retract the > landing gear... > > > "Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet" > From "THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES" by C.W. Badie > > --- On *Fri, 1/22/10, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] NASA unveils personal flying suit named ‘Puffin’; > flies at 150 mph > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 6:14 PM > > > I think that they were leaning towards "always on" idiot proof systems. At > least that is what the guy that created the Moller car was talking about. > But you do bring up a good point. No telling what kind of distractions will > be going on by then. > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ > hotmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=truthseeker...@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > >> >> >> To say nothing of the bright souls who decide to turn off their guidance >> system and fly by the seat of their pants. While chatting with a buddy or >> fourteen via text. >> >> "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in >> bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant >> >> http://www.youtube. com/watch? >> v=fQUxw9aUVik<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> To: scifino...@yahoogro >> ups.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com> >> >> From: HelloMahogany@ >> gmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hellomahog...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:22:40 -0800 >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] NASA unveils personal flying suit named >> ‘Puffin’; flies at 150 mph >> >> >> One of the things that the flying car / suit people have been working on >> is a replacement for the current air traffic control system. This would use >> a gps (gps is going away) like control system in the flying car that would >> be part of a collision avoidance system. However, I'm not sure what they >> will do about people that do things that they aren't supposed to do like >> flying peeping toms or drunk flying. >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ >> hotmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=truthseeker...@hotmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I'd love to see this in reality as well, but today out on the road proved >> to me that people are dangerous enough with vehicles that stay on the >> ground. Add in flight, and all of its vector components.. . it would get >> ugly. >> >> "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in >> bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant >> >> http://www.youtube. com/watch? >> v=fQUxw9aUVik<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> To: scifino...@yahoogro >> ups.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com> >> >> From: HelloMahogany@ >> gmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hellomahog...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:32:55 -0800 >> Subject: [scifinoir2] NASA unveils personal flying suit named ‘Puffin’; >> flies at 150 mph >> >> >> >> NASA unveils personal flying suit named ‘Puffin’; flies at 150 mphBy Andrew >> Nusca <http://www.smartplanet.com/search/?q=Andrew+Nusca> | Jan 22, 2010 >> | *2* >> Comments<http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/nasa-unveils-personal-flying-suit-named-puffin/3490/#comments> >> >> - Share >> - Email >> - Digg >> - Facebook >> - Twitter >> - Google >> - Delicious >> - StumbleUpon >> - Newsvine >> - LinkedIn >> - My Yahoo >> - Technorati >> - Reddit >> - Print >> - Recommend4 >> >> * <http://i.bnet.com/blogs/nasa-puffin-600px.jpg>NASA* on Wednesday said >> that it is working on a personal flying suit. >> Called “Puffin,” the conceptual and highly experimental project is part >> one-man stealth plane, part personal jet pack. >> Unveiled at a San Francisco meeting of the American Helicopter Society on >> Jan. 20 by Mark D. Moore, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research >> Center, the Puffin promises — on paper at least — a self-contained design >> with proper “cockpit” and helicopter-style blades that allow for >> high-altitude flying up to 30,000 ft. >> The Puffin is intended to be 12 feet in length, with a total wingspan of >> 14.5 ft., and would tip the scales at 300 pounds, empty. It will be powered >> by a 60 horsepower electric motor for simplicity, reliability and low >> environmental impact. >> The reason for this conceptual device? Covert military missions (”swoop >> and shoot,” if I may) or rescue operations. >> Take a look at the video: >> >> Why the name “Puffin,” by the way? “If you’ve ever seen a puffin on the >> ground, it looks very awkward, with wings too small to fly, and that’s >> exactly what our vehicle looks like,” said Mark Moore, an aerospace engineer >> at NASA Langley Research Center, in an article in >> <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasa-one-man-stealth-plane> >> *Scientific >> American*<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasa-one-man-stealth-plane> >> . >> According to that article, the Puffin can cruise at 240 kilometers per >> hour — that’s 149 mph — and dash at more than 480 kph, or almost 300 >> mph. NASA plans to finish a test mule at one-third-size by March to see how >> it transitions from cruising to hovering. >> But you never know how such technology could eventually manifest itself in >> the consumer space. If you ask me, I may have found a whole new way to get >> to the office. >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ >> of_darkness/<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up >> now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ >> of_darkness/<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. 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