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To: 300magnum

To be successful, these backpacks will have to be totally self stabilizing. The operator shouldn’t have to concentrate on flying to keep it from crashing. All the operator should have to do is move the control device in the direction they wish to go and the backpack should follow. The onboard computer keeps the device from crashing and getting out of control.


16 posted on 07/30/2008 8:32:20 AM PDT by woofer2425 (You will all be using Macs within 10 years)
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To: woofer2425
The onboard computer keeps the device from crashing and getting out of control.

Then you would definitely want to use Windows as the operating system.

Windows never crashes.

19 posted on 07/30/2008 8:36:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: woofer2425
"The onboard computer keeps the device from crashing and getting out of control."

And what keeps the onboard computer from crashing?
Oh, wait a minute: maybe they're not running a Windows operating system?

25 posted on 07/30/2008 8:42:56 AM PDT by Redbob ("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: woofer2425

“To be successful, these backpacks will have to be totally self stabilizing.”

As an engineer and a pilot, no way I’d ever get into one of these. Most aircraft are, by design, either stable, or marginally stable (in the case of modern fighter aircraft).

This thing is not even close. There is NO inherent stability at all. Not even close.


39 posted on 07/30/2008 9:48:34 AM PDT by EEDUDE
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