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Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:55 am

Test pilots needed

If your looking for a summer job, it looks they need test pilots for the new glider...

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Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:28 am

That is cool! Need to send BRD to do their video, his videos are better put together.

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Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:27 am

Pretty neat. The article says that jumping from 30,000 feet, the thing can glide 125 miles. Hmmm. That would make a glide ratio of 22:1. I don't believe that.
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Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:41 am

Gypsy Moths

If I recall there was a movie about these flying outfits... "Gypsy Moths" with Burt Lancaster and I think Gene Hackman.
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:08 am

If that's the same thing I saw a video of a few weeks back, I think it's powered by a pair of small turbojets. That might account for the 125nm range...
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:04 pm

Okay, but where do you mount the guns?

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Mon May 05, 2008 6:12 am

this is a different one than the one with the turbines on it. Both are pretty cool.

A helmet with HUD and O2, now that would be good also.
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Mon May 05, 2008 7:11 am

mtv wrote:Okay, but where do you mount the guns?

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Somewhere I have a picture of a Airborne soldier in the air to air mode. He has a Claymore strapped to his forehead, clacker in his right hand and is closing on a Mig. Maybe something similar for this? :lol:
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Mon May 05, 2008 10:48 am

Ya know the airlines ought to get in on this :lol: It would reduce delays and loss of baggage! They can fly a route and out you go within 100 miles near your destination with all your baggage. :lol: :lol:
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Mon May 05, 2008 6:09 pm

TEST PILOT

Splashpilot wrote:Ya know the airlines ought to get in on this :lol: It would reduce delays and loss of baggage! They can fly a route and out you go within 100 miles near your destination with all your baggage. :lol: :lol:
Sounds like a hell of a good idea to me,that program just might make me want to take an airline again :wink:(then again you would still have to deal with an airport full of idiots and sit in that aluminum tube full of germs)Screw that, Ill keep hucking myself out of my 180 whenever I can get someone to drive it for me :twisted: :wink:
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