A380 and Jetman

[garyw]

Pretty cool flying. I wonder if anyone wants to make a UMMU wingsuit for orbiter?

 

[Ravenous]

That looks fun (It'll be in the next Bond movie).

About the UMMU for Orbiter version - use the normal UMMU backpack and turn on "Unlimited Fuel" in the Orbiter setup. Take off from the equator (Carl Sagan Space Center perhaps), do one orbit and land again. Don't waste any time as you only have 2 hours of air...

 

[Hielor]

The impressive part is how the jetpacks were able to go fast enough to keep up with an A380, and/or how the A380 was able to go slow enough for the jetpacks to keep up...

 

[Cairan]

An A380 with no passengers, no cargo, a light load of 2 hours of fuel, with flaps extended can go rather slow... The jetwings go quite fast as far as free flying go, so yeah, their performance curves intersected in a graceful way

 

[Andy44]

That looked insanely dangerous...and insanely awesome.

 

[Cairan]

That looked insanely dangerous...and insanely awesome.

All I could think of was the trailing vortex of death coming from each wing :shifty:

 

[Andy44]

All I could think of was the trailing vortex of death coming from each wing :shifty:

And the jet wash. And the giant baloney shredders known as "fan blades"...

I've flown a little Cessna 150 into the wake turbulence of a twin turboprop, at least a quarter mile behind, and got a wicked shimmy for my troubles. I don't want to be the guy in a wingsuit that wanders too close to a 4-engine jumbo.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

They should get gremlin suits and just randomly hang out on the wings for a while and mess with the nervous passengers:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dar2HKImK-0"]Shatner v The Gremlin -- Two Minute Twilight Zone Project -- Nightmare at 20,000 feet - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Pipcard]

Human Delta-gliders.

 

[Ravenous]

All I could think of was the trailing vortex of death coming from each wing :shifty:

I don't know any numbers but apparently the wake from those big jets is even worse at low airspeeds and with the flaps out like that (and has contributed to known accidents)... eek...

 

[Urwumpe]

I don't know any numbers but apparently the wake from those big jets is even worse at low airspeeds and with the flaps out like that (and has contributed to known accidents)... eek...

Yes, no surprise.The vortex is created by the pressure difference between upper and lower side of the wings and depends on induced drag. The slower you are and the more flaps you deploy, the larger the induced drag becomes because of the increasing lift coefficient.

Speed itself doesn't directly influence the wing tip vortices though.

 

[jedidia]

Next up: ISIS deploying suicide missileers :shifty: :lol:

 

[TachyonDriver]

Next up: ISIS deploying suicide missileers :shifty: :lol:

Surely they would not target an Emirates jet?? :facepalm:

 

[Keatah]

I don't know any numbers but apparently the wake from those big jets is even worse at low airspeeds and with the flaps out like that (and has contributed to known accidents)... eek...

But the vortex is much less with a lightly loaded plane.

 

[n122vu]

All I could think of was the trailing vortex of death coming from each wing :shifty:

I was thinking this as well. It seemed evident to me in the video that they were actively avoiding the areas directly and diagonally behind the wingtips for just this reason.