"rangerssuck" wrote in message
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On Mar 16, 3:13 am, Rich Grise wrote:
rangerssuck wrote:
On Mar 14, 7:06 pm, "Tom Gardner" w@w wrote:
So, just who the **** is responsible for me not getting my
atomic-powered
flying car that I was promised when I was a kid?
Yet another thing we agree on (imagine that - two in a day!).
I plan to start a class-action lawsuit against the publishers of
Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. They promised me a flying car,
a jetpack and a gyrocopter and a hovercraft. They have utterly failed
to deliver, and I'm ****ed. I think about this every time I'm forced
to drive into midtown Manhattan on business (as I will be doing
tomorrow). It would be so completely cool to be flying around the city
like the Jetsons.
Well, you _could_ get or build a gyrocopter; jetpacks exist, but they're
prohibitively expensive and can only carry a few minutes' worth of
fuel, and you can build your own
hovercraft:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...ft+constructio...
There have been several flying cars on the market in the past, but
apparently nobody could afford one, and there's that pesky pilot's
license issue, but I guess you don't need a license for an ultralight.
So what's your real problem?
Thanks,
Rich
Not exactly a "jet" pack... more like a "ducted fan" pack; but still
pretty cool:
http://www.martinjetpack.com/video-gallery.aspx