Wingman

Wired.com ^ | August 18, 2003 | Michael Abrams

[Bubba_Leroy]

Get ready to fly at 186 mph.

Want to soar like an eagle? Then go with a parasail or a hang glider. But for those who dream of screaming through the air like a superhero, there's the Skyray - a solid, triangular, carbon-fiber contraption that lets skydivers shoot above the clouds at 186 mph for two exhilarating minutes. That's quadruple the air time of the usual free fall and almost twice the speed of the world's fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I WANT ONE!

[Lazamataz]

Not.

On.

My.

Life.

The Segue is about as risky as I am getting, pal.

[Hatteras]

Do you have to stall yourself out before you pull the ripcord?

[finnman69]

Imagine some bad ass special forces with this thing strapped on all i black or camo? Can they mount it with one of these on it?

[Lazamataz]

One blast from that, and the counter-thrust would halt the would-be birdman in the air, and he'd drop like a stone.

[Grut]

"Paratroop School is a three-week school; the first week they separate the men from the boys; the second week, they separate the boys from the fools; and the third week, they let the fools jump out of airplanes."

[Hatteras]

Where do I sign up? WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!!

[finnman69]

OK...no gatling gun..how about some phasers then keptin?

[NerdDad]

Ping-a-ding-a-ding.
Make sure you see post # 6 also.

[Spruce]

[Blueflag]

Then they jump at night, then they train for HALO.

It would be wild to have a slightly larger one for a trooper with a SAW.

[blackdog]

Big deal. Human lunacy has gone from jumping out of a perfectly functioning airplane and plumeting to earth like a sack-o-meat, to jumping out of a perfectly funtioning airplane like a sack-o-meat with minimal horizontal directional control.

Kind of like the evolution of throwing rocks to throwing darts.

[stainlessbanner]

Excellent!

[SERE_DOC]

"Then they jump at night, then they train for HALO. "My luck would involve a HANO jump, I have 2 screws in my left ankle from some summer fun @ Ft Benning.

Ah Ft Benning where the Army takes 6 hours of training and crams it into 3 weeks.

[night reader]

One blast from that, and the counter-thrust would halt the would-be birdman in the air, and he'd drop like a stone.

Okay then, how about a recoiless rifle, some sort of RPG, or any rocket powered ordinance?

[dogbrain]

here ya go...

[Erasmus]

I think this is technically classifiable as a body lifting body.

<]B^)

[mhking]

[Erasmus]

The first three shots, your forward velocity goes to zero and you stall out.

[Erasmus]

Uh-oh, YBMTI.