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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Wow....

Not exactly how I'd like to do my morning commute, but pretty darn cool. Nice mini jet engines on that thing eh?

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

I have to admit that I was spellbound watching this video. I'm also sort of happy that at this point in my life my 'aspect ratio' is a bit too low! Prairie stock build does not equal good bird.

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Jim Howell
Charlotte, NC

Pretty incredible.  I wasn't impressed with the landing gear though.  That thing can't be light.  It took two of them to get it on the plane, and they seemed to be working pretty hard.  Can you imagine hitting the ground at 35mph with that thing on your back?

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Me too!  I don't think I'd have wanted anyone recording video.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Remember...astronauts and test pilots wear diapers!

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

[quote=JJ "DynOmite" Donohue]Remember...astronauts and test pilots wear diapers![/quote]


Likely a very good precaution!   

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

A modern renaissance man this guy. I'm sure the experience both thrilled him and scared him witless.

The truth of the experience is whether he ever attempts it again.

Spellbound is the word for watching, and imagining, what type of mind would do this.

So, thanks a bunch for putting up the video.

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http://www.dickeyguitars.com

I'm betting some military contractors are either funding this project heavily or following it closely. It was probably just another day at the office for him.

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

Man, if I wasn't married with kids I'd give it a go. I'd be just about stupid enough. Don't know if I'd do it sober.

Back in the day, we'd get one of my hang gliders and a box of beer and then go looking for something to jump off. Sometimes it hurt, a lot. Hence the beer.

It seems like it's always French guys. Don't know what's going on in there, but my grandfather was French and he raced hydroplanes professionally until he was 62...

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Bob Garrish
Former Canonized Purveyor of Fine CNC Luthier Services

I'm pretty sure this guy is Swiss. Way uncharacteristic for Swiss! He must be part American or Australian!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Looks like we have a new safer way to fly with our guitars.

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

[quote=PaulB]Man, if I wasn't married with kids I'd give it a go. I'd be just about stupid enough. Don't know if I'd do it sober. [/quote]

   What does a redneck say before he dies?

"Hey! Hold my beer and watch this!"   - Foxworthy

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Brilliant! Just brilliant! If it were not for guys like this with so much gutz that they probably need a wheelbarrow to carry their manhood around in, the rest of us would be still in the caves.

Thanks for the post Billy

Cheers

Kim

That's one of the coolest, scariest, dumbest things I have ever seen! I'm totally in awe of a guy who would be Icarus.

Man I gotta get me one of those!

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Allen R. McFarlen
Barron River Guitars & Ukuleles
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Cairns, Australia

It didnt look that unsafe to me.

Freefall while parachuting can be up to 120 miles per hour before the chute is deployed. Safe height for deplayment of a safety chute if the main chute fails is 600 feet. It stated that his forward momentum was 100 miles per hour which means that his downward momentum was very low.

That means that his ability to stay in the air was more controlled than an ultralight, at a safer speed, his harness that fastened in into the wing structure was separate from that of his parachute, so that if all else failed, he could ditched the wing and he still would have his parachute and safety chute.

While it says that it is jet powered, because of the relatively low thrust of the mini-turbines, it was more a matter of jet assist as he would not have had enough thrust to takeoff with the turnines and the landing was a completely manual parachute landing, not much different than when an instructor straps a first timer in front of him to try out parachuting.

Wow that was great.

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Guitars, guitars and more guitars.

     Yea! I think it looks more dangerous than it is! I think it's just the simplicity of it. A wing "strap on" with 4 jet motors!

Proves the point, you can make a brick fly with enough thrust!!

[quote=larkim]the rest of us would be still in the caves. [/quote]

Gee! That's ...where I... live!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)