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You want to be real sure to have your groin straps adjusted properly.

That's pretty cool as long as you don't have irate homeowners shooting their bottle rocket launchers at you
That reminds me of the movie "The Rocketeer". Especially the part where the Nazis were trying to get ahold of the technology to make their own flying soldiers Will USAF or JBT be stenciled on the wings? lol

They're British, designed for the SAS, so I'd imagine they'd have nothing at all on the wings. My question is how hot does his boots get when a turbofan is on?

More to the point, how would you feel with a hot turbofan on top of your unprotected backside when you're in an environment where heat-seeking missiles may be expected?

You don't understand. IT'S BRITISH!!! So no guns, bombs, knives, clubs, cricket bats, brass knucks, numchucks, pictures of those items listed, thoughts of violence, or thoughts of thoughts of violence.
IT'S BRITISH!!!!


Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

More to the point, how would you feel with a hot turbofan on top of your unprotected backside when you're in an environment where heat-seeking missiles may be expected?

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Tis why they make a glider version. It's a good capability, sorta an extension of HALO. Jump high inside your own airspace, and let the wing carry you into hostile territory. The wing just allows one to get further than a parachute can.

I can see some hypothetically uses in very limited sets of circumstances. Something to be widely deployed? Na. Parachutes are relatively cheap, easy to operate and can more or less safely be deployed without very extensive training.

Airborne forces are extremely light units. They can be rapidly deployed, but if no one comes to supply them in short order... Can you say "Market Garden" ? Logistics are as important to winning/surviving as any other aspect of combat, and is too often ignored.

I wonder if they can reach their fly?

So, you know, as they are jumping into hostile territory, they can whiz on the enemy troops as they fly over. Combine a very real biological need and the desire to make your own statement.

Cool beans. But what about those of us without a convienent supply of aircraft to take us up in the air? I want something I can get a running start with in the front yard, and get airborne and on my way.

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125 miles at 140 mph on a half gallon of fuel?

Weellll, scooter, let's all trade in our new hybrids!


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Its so mall ninjaey

Nightfall
"I want something I can get a running start with in the front yard, and get airborne and on my way."
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LMAO! Somebody photoshop an AR-15 in that man's hands. Death From...slighty above!!!!

You want to be real sure to have your groin straps adjusted properly.

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Harry, that is sooooo damn funny!!! Thanks!

Major problem with unstowed weapons: they'd wreak havoc on aerodynamics, stability and control. Remember the scene in The Rocketeer where our over-rated hero turns his head to look at a stewardess in a passing airliner and departs from controlled flight?

I'd say, mount a couple guns fixed in the wing so's it'd be like a high-tech mini-WWII fighter on a strafing run. But it still looks like major Mall Ninja time to me... My look at trying to solve a similar problem was oriented toward finding a way to convert an ALCM's warhead section (with some expansion) into a single-space personnel "pod."

To infinity & beyond!!!!

High altitudes?
His hands would be too frozen and frost bitten to work the controls.
Not to mention...how in the world is it aerodynamic with him on the bottom?

Actually that photograph is what new assassins will look like.

Basically, that's what the guys kicking in your door at night will fly in on...

Let me be the first to say...

I want one!

You know, with a properly designed helmet, and some kind of flexible tail for better steering... that would look *even cooler* if such a thing is possible. *cough cough cyborgdragon cough*

You can tell it's <strike>going on</strike> 3am, folks.

It will quickly be outlawed. The wings are far too pointy, a bloke might hurt himself or someone else.

There was some experimenting done with jump suits that had fabric sewn between the legs and from the arms to the hips. The suits were seriously and literally almost murder to fly, several people came close to or did buy the farm in testing, but it allowed something like a 6 or 8 to one glide ratio so that if you were dropped at 50,000 feet, you could theroretically glide 300,000 to 400,000 feet laterally from the line of flight. This means something like 50 or 60 miles from the drop point. I remember seeing some pictures of failed designs that incorporated a ram front shape that gave the body suit a more wingfoil shape, but that these led to forward speeds that were more than the human body could resist and there were reports of "pilots" suffering broken arms and worse from the turbulance and stress of trying to resist the airpressures. Original names for the suits were "batsuits' after the comic book, but later versions suddenly seemed to disappear leading me to believe that maybe something cool evolved.

Reminds me of this...

DoubleTapDrew
" LMAO! Somebody photoshop an AR-15 in that man's hands. Death From...slighty above!!!! "
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The BAR works good on my bird.