The line between man and Marvel Comics character blurs;
Via Drudge
21 Replies to “Stealth Men”
Jack Layton’s vision of the Canadian Airforce?
Is there a food and beverage service?
How do e-tickets work?
Is that a harness, or are you just happy to see me?
Someone in wardrobe finally took Bill Conti up on the original Rocky theme.
For those interested in things military, including the incredible technology that’s here now as well as what’s coming, I strongly recommend the fascinating website and blog Strategy Page, at http://www.strategypage.com
Their “About Us”:
“StrategyPage provides quick, easy access to what is going on in military affairs. We cover armed forces world wide, as well as up to date reporting on wars and hotspots wherever they may be. All the news you need, written so that it fits into the time you have for it. The information is organized logically, with categories for different weapons systems (armor, artillery, naval aviation, etc.). We also cover the software of war, often ignored items like leadership, peacetime operations, intelligence, information warfare and the like. And we keep the information online, with archives going back to the early 1980s. A search capability gives you quick access to whatever you need. We put it all in context with military history, maps, country background and useful links.”
” NO! That’s not a refueling nozzle! ”
The caption should read.
This is superhero Stephen Harper in that helmet requesting take-off clearance from the tower at the newly named John Deifenbaker Airport located somewhere near Ottawa.
Connservatives everywhere jump with glee at the mere site of Teflon Stevie.
Vacuous Hate-Filled Troll Alert!
Interesting.
You couldn’t land something like that. You’d have to fly in under canopy (parachute.) If you notice in the picture, the harness is a modified skydiving rig. They’d have been better off with an off-the-shelf wing suit which would have done the same thing. With this thing you’d have to jettison the wing or fly your parachute with the thing still stuck to your back (and risk any turbulence on your rig’s opening which would not be good.)
The idea of a wing suit is to be able to vastly increase your horizontal distance during freefall (i.e. glide for long distances not possible without a airfoil wing of some sort.)
Patrick de Gayardon invented the things (and sadly died testing one. He’s the only Frenchman I don’t disdain…)
Here’s a better explanation with a small pic from Troy Hartman’s site (who is a world champion skysurfer and friend of Patrick) http://www.troyhartman.com/the_wing_suit.htm
Here’s more pics of a more advanced design from GoFast Sports. http://www.gofastsports.com/zone/wingsuit.html
(The smoke is for effects, like at air shows. It isn’t propulsion.)
At any rate, the wingsuit would have been way more pragmatic. A hard wing would give you more range but would be way more likely to kill you.
If you want to see some of the craziest skydivers in the world (and these guys are nuts!) here’s a link to Joe Jennings (who is the world’s top Arial Photographer.) http://www.joejennings.com/slide1a.htm
Click on the pics to advance
This doesn’t surprise me at all. Anyone who has read Popular Science, Pop mechanics, Omni et al, has seen a lot of far fetched ideas actually take off.
The thing that gives me a giggle is reading the comments on the article. Poeple are calling for treason charges to those who dare run stories of military secrets. Others are saying it would never work for mass paradrops even though the whole article was about covert ops and the SAS etc. It seems that reading and comprehension are not being taught anymore.
Personally, I hope it has a reserve chute… just in case.
OK, the first person to make a “strap on” joke gets plonked.
Ooops. That would be me.
Oh well.
It was a brave (or foolish) man who first strapped that thing on.
A tad challenging to wear in a stiff breeze I should think.
C’mon,I seem to remember jet packs having successful tests too,still have never seen them actually used.
TC,I,m with you.BTW,am still surprised the MSM never gave any real exposure to the light plane that successfully used an emergency chute system about a year or so ago.Everyone walked away!
Canadian Observer, The MSM won’t cover that because they are fixated on the death watch. Ballistic Recovery systems are now available for almost any light aircraft now and some newer ones come with that as an option. Gee, kind of like airbags were back in the dim times. It is truly amazing the pace of new technology today.
As to the fixed wing “Stealth Man”, skydivers have been working on stuff like that for a long time. Webbed jumpsuits like a flying squirrel, airborn surfboards, this is just a logical path to follow. IMHO
If it works I want one!
How long before a suicide bomber tries to fly one into a building? Okay, would you believe a farmer’s windmill?
Seriously though, stealth cuts both ways. With a 6-to-1 glide ratio, one could cover nearly 18 miles from only 15,000 feet. It might prove useful to a terrorist.
…It’ll be in the Acme catalogue?
…just call me “Captain Combat”…
-used to be a handle I had on a bbs chat, remember those 😉
Jeesus … “glide 120 miles or more before landing”?
cripes, I want one.
Bitchin’!
I need one desperatly ,…with pontoons, for my next fly-in fishing adventure.
Not required. Drones do the job in 99% of cases. TG
Jack Layton’s vision of the Canadian Airforce?
Is there a food and beverage service?
How do e-tickets work?
Is that a harness, or are you just happy to see me?
Someone in wardrobe finally took Bill Conti up on the original Rocky theme.
For those interested in things military, including the incredible technology that’s here now as well as what’s coming, I strongly recommend the fascinating website and blog Strategy Page, at http://www.strategypage.com
Their “About Us”:
“StrategyPage provides quick, easy access to what is going on in military affairs. We cover armed forces world wide, as well as up to date reporting on wars and hotspots wherever they may be. All the news you need, written so that it fits into the time you have for it. The information is organized logically, with categories for different weapons systems (armor, artillery, naval aviation, etc.). We also cover the software of war, often ignored items like leadership, peacetime operations, intelligence, information warfare and the like. And we keep the information online, with archives going back to the early 1980s. A search capability gives you quick access to whatever you need. We put it all in context with military history, maps, country background and useful links.”
” NO! That’s not a refueling nozzle! ”
The caption should read.
This is superhero Stephen Harper in that helmet requesting take-off clearance from the tower at the newly named John Deifenbaker Airport located somewhere near Ottawa.
Connservatives everywhere jump with glee at the mere site of Teflon Stevie.
Vacuous Hate-Filled Troll Alert!
Interesting.
You couldn’t land something like that. You’d have to fly in under canopy (parachute.) If you notice in the picture, the harness is a modified skydiving rig. They’d have been better off with an off-the-shelf wing suit which would have done the same thing. With this thing you’d have to jettison the wing or fly your parachute with the thing still stuck to your back (and risk any turbulence on your rig’s opening which would not be good.)
The idea of a wing suit is to be able to vastly increase your horizontal distance during freefall (i.e. glide for long distances not possible without a airfoil wing of some sort.)
Patrick de Gayardon invented the things (and sadly died testing one. He’s the only Frenchman I don’t disdain…)
Here’s a better explanation with a small pic from Troy Hartman’s site (who is a world champion skysurfer and friend of Patrick)
http://www.troyhartman.com/the_wing_suit.htm
Here’s more pics of a more advanced design from GoFast Sports.
http://www.gofastsports.com/zone/wingsuit.html
(The smoke is for effects, like at air shows. It isn’t propulsion.)
At any rate, the wingsuit would have been way more pragmatic. A hard wing would give you more range but would be way more likely to kill you.
If you want to see some of the craziest skydivers in the world (and these guys are nuts!) here’s a link to Joe Jennings (who is the world’s top Arial Photographer.)
http://www.joejennings.com/slide1a.htm
Click on the pics to advance
This doesn’t surprise me at all. Anyone who has read Popular Science, Pop mechanics, Omni et al, has seen a lot of far fetched ideas actually take off.
The thing that gives me a giggle is reading the comments on the article. Poeple are calling for treason charges to those who dare run stories of military secrets. Others are saying it would never work for mass paradrops even though the whole article was about covert ops and the SAS etc. It seems that reading and comprehension are not being taught anymore.
Personally, I hope it has a reserve chute… just in case.
OK, the first person to make a “strap on” joke gets plonked.
Ooops. That would be me.
Oh well.
It was a brave (or foolish) man who first strapped that thing on.
A tad challenging to wear in a stiff breeze I should think.
C’mon,I seem to remember jet packs having successful tests too,still have never seen them actually used.
TC,I,m with you.BTW,am still surprised the MSM never gave any real exposure to the light plane that successfully used an emergency chute system about a year or so ago.Everyone walked away!
Canadian Observer, The MSM won’t cover that because they are fixated on the death watch. Ballistic Recovery systems are now available for almost any light aircraft now and some newer ones come with that as an option. Gee, kind of like airbags were back in the dim times. It is truly amazing the pace of new technology today.
As to the fixed wing “Stealth Man”, skydivers have been working on stuff like that for a long time. Webbed jumpsuits like a flying squirrel, airborn surfboards, this is just a logical path to follow. IMHO
If it works I want one!
How long before a suicide bomber tries to fly one into a building? Okay, would you believe a farmer’s windmill?
Seriously though, stealth cuts both ways. With a 6-to-1 glide ratio, one could cover nearly 18 miles from only 15,000 feet. It might prove useful to a terrorist.
…It’ll be in the Acme catalogue?
…just call me “Captain Combat”…
-used to be a handle I had on a bbs chat, remember those 😉
Jeesus … “glide 120 miles or more before landing”?
cripes, I want one.
Bitchin’!
I need one desperatly ,…with pontoons, for my next fly-in fishing adventure.
Not required. Drones do the job in 99% of cases. TG