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Old 09-02-2020 | 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by init4fun
Speed , before you say any more , please do a search of "Man crosses English Channel on Flyboard" and read the story . Now please don't come back to me with "but it's not a jetpack , it's a flyboard" , to the untrained eye that flying contraption looks VERY much like a jetpack and functions just as one expects a jetpack would , so well so that it permitted this gent to cross the channel without wings .

like I said , Google is your friend , and yes indeed it's still VERY possible that the pilots DID see an actual living , breathing , flying A hole on a contraption looking for all the world like , , well , like a jetpack



Impesseve for certain however a 20 mile horizontal flight at low altitude should require less fuel then a climb to 3,000' and back. Hard to argue the fuel requirement issue. That being said, if I am wrong I will admit it. More then what can be said about a couple of our regulars.