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Monday, January 25, 2010

NASA Announces Designs for Personal Flying Suit. Fuck Yeah!



Conceptual designs for the experimental vehicle, called Puffin, were introduced by Mark D. Moore, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center, at a meeting of the American Helicopter Society on Jan. 20 in San Francisco. The Puffin is designed to be 12 feet in length, with a total wingspan of 14 and a half feet; it would weigh in at 300 pounds (without a pilot).

Two major elements distinguish the Puffin suit from the jet packs of ’50s-era sci-fi flicks. First, it is completely self-contained: the pilot would actually step into the suit, which has a cockpit-like area and helicopter-style blades, allowing for high-altitude flying (unlike those sci-fi jet packs).

2 comments:

  1. I better start saving up. Gotta have one of these, possibilities are endless.

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  2. Got the thing a heater too??
    I don't wanna freeze to death, when I'm in it...

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