The Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack. It consists of a purpose-built gasoline engine driving twin ducted fans which produce sufficient thrust to lift the aircraft and a pilot in vertical takeoff and landing, enabling sustained flight.
The Martin Jetpack is creating a new segment in the aviation and recreational vehicle markets. Initially designed with the leisure market in mind, commercial demand for the Martin Jetpack has seen the research and development programme focus on readying the product for use in a number of sectors including emergency response, defence and recreation, with numerous applications in each sector.
One novel feature of the Martin Jetpack is the incorporation of a rapid deployment parachute in case of an engine failure.
* Note: Some of the comments on space.com mention that the X-15 flew more than two times. This graphic is only counting the two sub-orbital flights the X-15 flew.
The car is painted Deep Bordeaux and comes with subtle rally stripes. The interior is amber leather offset by black leather side panels and red stitching.
That’s cool, but even cooler is the power beneath the hood: The Neiman Marcus Camaro Convertibles are equipped with a 6.2-liter, V-8 engine. When paired with six-speed manual transmission, the engine delivers 426 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque; with the six-speed automatic, the engine delivers 400 horsepower and 410 pound-feet of torque.
So, in other words: We’d prefer the manual.
The car won’t be ready for delivery until the spring of 2011 (the version for mere mortals won’t be at dealers till February), so we won’t start pestering you about it until late February or so.
Very nice and kudos to Neiman Marcus for still calling the catalog the CHRISTMAS book.
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is personally overseeing the country’s efforts to create one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world. He stopped by the Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow to watch a test flight of the Sukhoi T-50 jet. The plane features an array of technical and design innovations. Sukhoi, the company behind it, says it’ll be a few more years before the fifth-generation jet is ready for mass production.
Yet you have idiot congresscritters like Rep. Gerry Connolly that insist that the only way to make up for their extraordinary level of deficit spending is to increase taxes.
Ignorance is a dangerous, dangerous, thing. WE here in America, are only just re-learning this lesson.
This is truly the Golden Era of Ignorance in America. If we survive the damage it has done, we must begin all over again teaching our children what it means to be an American under the protection of the original US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
A promising fifth-generation aviation complex (PAK FA) rose today in the sky from the airfield FRI them Gromov in Zhukovsky near Moscow, continuing, thus, a program of flight tests.
Fly the aircraft Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation Sergey Bogdan. The first flight of the PAK FA was held on 29 January this year at the airport included holding “Sukhoi” Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production association Yuri Gagarin (KnAAPO). Upon successful completion of the first phase of tests, which consisted of six flights, the fighter was delivered to Zhukovsky.
Compared with previous generations of fighters, PAK FA has several unique features, combining the functions of attack aircraft and fighter. The aircraft is equipped with a fifth-generation an entirely new avionics, which integrates the function of “e-pilot”, and promising radar with a phased antenna array. This greatly reduces the load on the pilot and can concentrate on the implementation of tactical tasks. On-board equipment of the new aircraft allows the exchange of data in real time as a land-management systems, and within the aviation group.
Defense analysts think that the T-50 is not so much a challenge to the US Air Force’s F-22 as it is a means to maintain air superiority over the Chinese Air Force:
Even though it is nearly automatic to think of the PAK FA/T-50 in terms of a direct confrontation vs. the F-22, and this may indeed have been the original goal when the programme was first launched in the late 1980s, in the current global strategic scenario it is perhaps more likely that the Russians are rather interested in maintaining an air superiority edge over China’s current J-11s/SU-27s/-30s and future J-12. Also, the expected future worldwide usage of the F-35 JSF attack aircraft with its low observability qualities requires an interceptor capable to deal with this peculiar threat.
A cool video about Future Dog Fights and the F-22:
