40 Replies to “Another Moment Of Achievement”

  8. Loved it, until the article mentioned the 150,000 Euro price tag.
    Will wait anxiously for the $149.99 Can. model to come out at Wal-Mart.

  10. I hear the snacks are shitty on that flight and that Western Canadian solo fliers will be forced to land at Air Canada departure gates and pay the airport tax or risk jail sentences.
    Eastern Canadian solo fliers will be exempt.

  11. Fun has already been regulated because it must be fairly distributed to those that never have any. Right now in Canada and the US their are government bureaucrats, with degrees in Public Administration from 2nd tier universities, squinting at the fine print to issue an action memo grounding our modern Commander Cody.

  13. “Fun has already been regulated because it must be fairly distributed to those that never have any.”
    Someone just had to put this into context of a right wing partisan political narrative.
    Not everything boils down to the little poltical dramas you obsess over. Once you realize that, then life does become a lot more fun.

  14. “Not everything boils down to the little poltical dramas you obsess over. Once you realize that, then life does become a lot more fun.”
    Really? Well, when I was little, I got to play on monkey bars, Jose. And teeter-totters… and a 20 foot high slide placed 100 yards out into a lake. If you weren’t tall enough, you had to swim to get to it.
    Tell that to the little kids of today, dreaming of what it must have been like when playground equipment rose higher than 3 feet off the ground.
    Ugh.

  16. I remember when we didn’t have to wear helmets to ride a bike as well Kate. Does that age me? And when kids like me fell off our little bike and hurt our little heads, our parents didn’t sue! I’ll bet that ages me. Cuz once we had learned to ride the bike if we didn’t ride it sensibly, it was our own fault when we got hurt. Really; I’m not fibbin.

  17. no helmets? my word Kate on a slide that size? I bet you had no waterwings either.
    that is a fantastic video tho…now how do we go about putting this into a right wing partisan political narrative?

  18. Ah, the good old days…a time before frivolous lawsuits (and helmets, seat belts, and stiff drunk driving laws).

  19. Let’s see, a comment that begins with “Fun” and ends with “Commander Cody” is only understood in the context of “right wing partisan politics.” Jeez, semiotics is a dangerous tool in the hands of the uninformed.

  20. This is very, very impressive. Another innovative step forwards for humanity, up there with the Wright Brothers’ first successful flight, but even better.
    This time, man himself flies by simply attaching wings, propulsion and steering ability. Man literally flies without a vehicle. Man is the thing that flies, as a bird, a plane…
    I’m impressed… imagine the intelligence and long, hard work that went into making this possible, and the relentless belief that it could be done!
    Totally awesome!

  21. And when it comes right down to it, isn’t Jose the “funnest” guy you know?
    Sorry, jose and iberia, I won’t be taking advice on enjoying life from the lemon sucking left.

  23. To make it really fun, I suggest Captain Rossy could add some comfort features, like a windscreen, a heater, maybe even provisions for a passenger.

  24. My “wow” moment to do with flight was when I soloed. I can only imagine how much better a “wow” moment it would be to soar under that wing. Gotta wonder if I would have the guts to strap it on and go for it.

  25. Great. Like my job as an air traffic controller isn’t hard enough keeping the flying farmers away from the 757’s and such, now I’ll have to deal with these things?

  26. “Tell that to the little kids of today, dreaming of what it must have been like when playground equipment rose higher than 3 feet off the ground.”
    I don’t know where its like where you live but the playgrounds over here are much cooler than anything I had acess to when I was a kid.

  27. You’re right Kate…we can’t have people thinking they can just pick up and use the government’s air any time they want…this calls for taxation and certifying, licencing, permitting and safety studies, government committees, legislating and a watchdog agency..this calls for the expansion of bureaucracies…”gentlemen we must protect our phoney baloney jobs..harumph harrumph” ( as BB clears his phlegm in our direction to show official concern);-)

  28. Sorry to hear about your deprived childhood Jose……sucks to be you! Mine was awesome, better than anything this current Nintendo generation has. My own teenagers included. It was great when they were younger, my wife and I took them out hiking, biking etc all the time. Now it is a challange to get them outside at all. Apparently this is the better quality of life that the liberals always go on about.

  29. I broke a 900 lb yearling quarter horse to ride when I was 12. Started out by tying him to a heavy post in the corral with an inner tube “buffer” before sacking him out. After he got used to that, I went on to teaching him to let me pick up a back foot.
    There was rope that hung from the roof inside Elmer Cann’s barn. I recall an afternoon spent climbing up the wooden ladder nailed to the wall, where we’d grab the rope and swing out into space before dropping in the hay.
    And of course, climbing on bale stacks, building forts, riding dirt bikes, snowmachines, shooting gophers and English sparrows …
    My brothers and cousins tried one summer, (unsuccessfully) to disassemble an old threshing machine out in the pasture.
    Now, I would hazard a guess that those are still cooler ways for a kid spend an afternoon than being watched over my a watchful mommy while climbing around on brightly painted PVC pipes.

  30. “Cuz once we had learned to ride the bike if we didn’t ride it sensibly, it was our own fault when we got hurt.”
    Gunney99, I always blamed my older brothers, whom I was trying to emulate.

  31. THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES.THEY GO UPITTY UP UP THE COME DOWNDY DOWN DOWN HEY SQUAWK SQUAWK WAIT UP GUYS IM FLYING UP TO MEET YOU SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

  32. I have seven words that should kill all this giddiness; teenagers with learners permits in the sky.

  33. Kate, I’m disappointed with the tone of your 12:10 post. Not everyone can have the opportunity to grow up with doggies, horsies, dirt bikes, threshing machines etc in a threat-free environment. And when I say threat-free I’m not referring to the damage a child can do to herself inside an old threshing machine. The world has changed, including the rural environment since you were a child, and I believe you could be a little kinder to the watchful mommies and the families that will not have the advantages you did. And lastly, in the winter, “brightly painted PVC pipes” are a lot more forgiving than galvanized steel when you put your tongue on them.

  34. It wasn’t just the man flying strapped to wings thing that got me, it was the details, like the fact that the wings were hinged for ease of deployment from a small plane, and somehow swung into place despite the massive wind resistance they must have had to work against in the freefall. Someone had to plan and design to counter that, then fly through the air using their own body to steer. Holy shit, is all I have to say.

  36. water wings were a death trap. nostalgia be damned. theyre banned now arent they? for good reason.
    I always got a strong queazy feeling of uneasiness about them whenever I saw some wee tot with them on at the beach.
    they keep the child’s arms above the water. and their head therefore, to balance the bouyancy, goes under. children that age do NOT have the shoulder and upper arm strength to heave their face out of the water ‘pushing’ against the inanimate high-in-the-water wings nicely full of air.
    better strategy: an upper body form fitting suit flotation device, not the cumbersome life ‘jackets’ we have now; keep the chest area and thus easily the head also ABOVE the water level.
    water wings were a death trap, I never used them with my kid.
    p.s., all we need now eh? drunk driving in 3 dimensions…..

  37. UNNA BALOMA BLANKA IM JUST A BIRD IN THE SKY UNA PALOMA BLANKA OVER THE MOUNTIAN I FLY SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

  38. just saw a printed article newly in Bourques news watch re this new flying option but it did not have any attached video as yours, so SDA wins again. Your posting this was superb, thanks for something the regular press cannot give.

  39. odie “Sorry to hear about your deprived childhood Jose”
    Oh I grew up hunting and fishing in Ontario like nobody’s business. I still hike up a storm, I’ve done at least about 3,000 km worth of backpacking in the past 8 years in the Rockies, Andes, Europe and Africa.

  40. Jose,
    “I’ve done at least about 3,000 km worth of backpacking in the past 8 years in the Rockies, Andes, Europe and Africa”
    Ah, you work for the government then. Probably a teacher. No one else has that kind of time… we’re all too busy contributing to the economy and paying our taxes.

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