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2021-06-08 Science & Technology

Off his chopper: Daredevil takes first test flight of electric-powered backpack helicopter

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-08 03:06|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Batteries last as long as 5 minutes aloft?

Posted by magpie 2021-06-08 09:48|| 2021-06-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Skinny Dude...You'd need 6 of those rotors to get my fat ass off the ground

Posted by Warthog 2021-06-08 09:56|| 2021-06-08 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 "Controlled by an operator on the ground..."
No thanks.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-06-08 12:01|| 2021-06-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Unlike gas-fueled jetpacks, the CopterPack appears to uses battery power to propel the device's dual rotors.

And by "battery power", we mean a ridiculously heavy device with nowhere near the energy density needed to power flight.

Posted by SteveS 2021-06-08 13:06|| 2021-06-08 13:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Pessimist! It would work as well as tethered aerial balloons

Posted by magpie 2021-06-08 17:45|| 2021-06-08 17:45|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Hot air balloons, from the 1860's....

Posted by magpie 2021-06-08 17:46|| 2021-06-08 17:46|| Front Page Top

#7 let me fly him! my turn!

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-06-08 18:27|| 2021-06-08 18:27|| Front Page Top

#8
Get in line sonny, this 99 year old is next, no time left, right...becomes a Centenarian

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