Machine Gun Jetpack-Physics
Randall “xkcd” Munroe rechnet auf seinem tollen neuen Blog “What if?” aus, wieviele Maschinengewehre man bräuchte, um sie als Jetpack benutzen zu können. Rocketscience mit Guns, tatsächlich.
The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.
To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
Waterpowered Jetbike-Stunts
Der Jetovator ist wohl eine Weiterentwicklung von Flyboard das wiederum eine Weiterentwicklung des Waterjetpacks war. Dude, where is my waterpowered Jetcarspaceshipwarpdrive? (via Creators Project)
Jetlev Water-Jetpack gets wet
(Youtube Direktjetpack, via Laughing Squid)
Den Jetlev Water-Jetpack hatte ich zuletzt vor einem Jahr, jetzt wird er tatsächlich ausgeliefert, oben ein neues Video aus Miami. Demnächst on a beach somewhere near you.
Jetpack-Ski feat. Parachute on Fire
(Vimeo Direktjetpack, via Gilly)
Troy Hartman hat sich einen Jetpack gebaut, mit dem er mit knapp 75km/h auf Skiern rumheizen kann. Außerdem hat er sich für einen Stunt einen Fallschirm in der Luft abgefackelt. Das Video davon nach dem Klick.
Will Ferrell in Wired: Jeez, where is my fucking Jetpack?!
Will Ferrell hat in der Wired einen netten Artikel am Start (na gut, er hat vor allem sein Gesicht in die Kamera gehalten und ein paar Textchen beigesteuert, der Rest kommt von anderen): „Where’s the Future? Will Ferrell’s Tour of Tech That Never Took“ (via Gizmodo)
Jetski Jetpack
(Youtube Direktjetpack, via Make)
Diesen wasserbetriebenen Jetpack hatte ich schonmal letztes Jahr gesehen und habe ihn aus mir heute nicht weiter verständlichen Gründen nicht gebloggt. Aber thanx to the Intertubes, auf denen alles in Dreimonatszyklen immer wiederkehrt: Here comes the Jetlev-Flyer!
Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was
(Vimeo DirektJetpack, via Paleo Future)
Das hier ist der Trailer zu Mac Montandons Buch „Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was“, das grade eben den ersten Platz auf meinem Weihnachtswunschzettel ergattert hat. Snip von der Beschreibung auf Amazon:
Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines, the jetpack. While exploring our collective fascination with flight, the tale takes readers from the first flimsy, shoulder-mounted wings to Bill Suitors 1984 Olympic flight in front of billions of viewers around the world; from a gruesome jetpack-driven murder in Houston in the mid-1990s to the secret laboratories and government facilities of today. Journalist Mac Montandon also explores Hollywoods fascination with the subject, from the 1949 serial King of the Rocket Men to Lost in Space, The Jetsons and The Rocketeer to the cultural jetpack phenomenon represented by Buck Rogers, James Bond, and Boba Fett. He travels the world to meet jetpack enthusiasts who are readying their own personal flying machines for takeoff. Ultimately, its the search for an answer to two simple questions: Where is the jetpack that was promised to him, and to all of us, years ago? And if its out there, can he catch a ride?
Amazon-Partnerlink: Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was
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Imaginary Foundation Jetpack-Shirt
Sven vom Clearcutcase-Shirt-Shop hat mir heute dieses fantastische Imaginary Fountation-Shirt mit einem Steampunk-Jetpack inklusive Gentleman mit einem wunderbaren Schnurrbart geschickt. Danke dafür! Imaginary Foundation machen fantastische Shirts, allesamt mit Space und Nerdism und vintage Zeugs, klasse.
A Jetpack from the Real-Life Days of Steampunk
Getting to the California gold fields after the discovery of the precious metal at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 wasn’t easy—by land or by sea. That’s where this satiric 1849 print from Currier and Ives comes from. It’s called “The Way They Go to California,” and tweaks the ore-crazed “Forty-Niners” who rushed to claim a stake and prospect for gold. Currier and Ives depicted the 49ers taking some alternate forms of transportation to California . . . like a personal rocket, which you see in the upper right. Click through for a closer look at what, a century later, would no doubt have been a jetpack.
Dude, there is my Jetpack!
Gestern haben sie in Oshkosh Wisconsin einen Jetpack vorgestellt und jetzt muss ich mal kurz über den Ortsnamen Oshkosh reden. Wie genial ist denn bitte der Name Oshkosh? Oshkosh. Oshkosh. Wunderbar. Ich finde, alle Städte sollten ab jetzt Oshkosh heissen, man wäre dem Weltfrieden damit sicherlich ein ganzes Stück näher. Oshkosh. Desto öfter ich den Namen vor mich hin tippe, desto genialer klingt er, deshalb hier ein ganzer Absatz davon:
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Der Jetpack ist eigentlich gar keiner, sondern eher ein Heli-Pack mit zwei seitlichen Rotoren, was aber wurscht ist, denn das Teil sieht völlig, völlig badass aus und das genügt mir eigentlich schon, wenn man von der Tatsache mal absieht, dass ich immer noch keinen davon in der Garage stehen habe.
On Tuesday, an inventor from New Zealand unveiled what he calls “the world’s first practical jetpack” at the EAA AirVenture, the gigantic annual air show here. The inventor, Glenn Martin, 48, who has spent 27 years developing the devices, said he hoped to begin selling them next year for $100,000 apiece.
“There is nothing that even comes close to the dream that the jetpack allows you to achieve,” said Robert J. Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. He called it “about the coolest desire left to mankind.”
For Mr. Martin, the jetpack is the culmination of a dream that began as a 5-year-old in Dunedin, New Zealand. For those who still remember childhood dreams of flying and comic-book visions of the 21st century, the jetpack suggests the possible fulfillment of the yearning for those long-promised gifts of technology.
Buck Rogers and James Bond used jetpacks, and since the 1960s, several real jetpack designs have been built from metal, plastic and propellant. None has flown more than a minute. Mr. Martin’s machines can run for 30 minutes.
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Jetpacks on Brontosauruses
Something strange is going on. Jetpacks on Brontosauruses! From Flashbang Studios, whose design process goes like this:
As for our creative process? Alcohol > Joke > Prototype > Art > Holy Crap This Is Fun And Pretty > Game > Internet Glory.
Disneyland Jetpack
Ey, Zukunft! Wo zum Geier bleibt mein Jetpack?
The Disneyland TV program aired Disneyland Around the Seasons on December 18, 1966. The episode contained this great clip of a man wearing a jetpack (or rocketbelt), flying around Disneyland. (Paleo Future)
Video von Disneylands Rocketman nach dem Klick.
Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
