The reason I thought you cyberpeeps might indulge this diversion is that this seems to me to be the ultimate superpower exoskeleton. You climb into it and it gives you 20mins free movement in three dimensions.
It currently costs about $120K plus the cost of getting a private pilot’s licence. I can’t afford that now but if that’s the current price of this advanced prototype it might lower to the price of a family car a few years before I’m too old to be allowed to fly one.
I’m an aviation nerd and I’ve worked in and around aviation in the past…
This is hard no for me lol,
I absolutely recoil at the posistion of the rotors in relation to my body
I’d want one of those backpack jet packs with the arm turbines for stability… I wonder what they’ve gotten flight time up to I think it’s a few minutes now… big improvement over the old peroxide rockets
It has just received ultralight status to fly in Italian non-commercial airspace but they require a pilot’s licence. I don’t know whether that’s the full licence you’d need to fly a small plane.
Age won’t keep you from flying but it will affect the expiration of your medical certificate so you might have to renew it more often.
Same! I’d be surprised if that thing can do something along the lines of an autorotation. That video also had me looking for the throttle as that flight was way too low for comfort…
You wouldn’t be able to legally fly that low if it wasn’t… And I’m still horrified by how that guy was flirting with the 50ft obstacle at the end of the runway…
Edit:
Ultralights require a license in most countries, the US is one of the few places where this isn’t the case.
I think it’s a few minutes now… big improvement over the old peroxide rockets
