Aerobike and Jetpack

[Todg]

Anyone done up stats for personal flying machines like a jetpack or aerobike?

http://www.geocities.com/alliedaerobiker/

http://www.flying-contraptions.com/

Small jet engines are getting more powerful and fuel efficient. While the original Bell Rocket belt only had a 20 second duration, there are now small turbofans that can provide several hundred pounds of thrust for long periods of time with weights that are managable for a person. Seems like a reasonable jet pack coult be doable in the very near future.

Low tech grav belt.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

want!

 

[womble]

Neat.

There's this: http://www.moller.com/skycar/ too...

 

[Todg]

Yep. Moller's been working on tht thing for 20 years at least. I remember the ads in 'Popular Mechanics' for his sky car when I was in high school.

I was more interested in personal transportation. I want to build a jet pack, but my wife won't let me. I even have some plans. But what I really need is a small jet engine with about 300-400 lbs thrust. Justifying the expense is tricky.

This one is close to what I need.

http://www.williams-int.com/product/fjx.htm

But I only need half the thrust, and a smaller size would be nice. Look what they could do in 1969:

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/flying/jet_belt.htm

and that one had a 27 minute flight time!

 

[Pagan priest]

http://www.millenniumjet.com/trek_aerospace_springtail_efv4.html

If you saw the movie Agnet Cody Banks, one of these was used there.

 

[Todg]

Yep. Except it's too big and SoloTrek went out of business.

I did pick up plans for a small jet engine on ebay.

Hmmmmm.

 

[slyen2002]

hay who knows maybe we can build Flying DeLorianes soon!
(i think thats how it's spelled)

 

[Pagan priest]

SoloTrek is now Milennium Jet

 

[womble]

It's "DeLorean". (Not being picky - trying to provide implicitly requested data).

 

[Straybow]

Endurance 1.5 hrs! Cool.

 

[Todg]

Doing a search for millenium Jet points back to solotrek's webpage, which is gone. Can anyone poit me to another websoite, or is the Millenium Jet really dead (I hear they are selling the prototype as long as the buy promises not to fly it).

 

[Pagan priest]

http://www.millenniumjet.com/index.html
They are now calling it the Springtail EFV-4. It has done a 1 minute unteathered flight (in Oct. '03) and is supposed to do more sometime this spring.