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Posts Tagged “flying machine”

Tom Scott – How much helium does it take to lift a person?

Posted on September 13th, 2022 by Hitstun

About 1 liter of helium per gram of lift. To his credit, he says that right at the start, so it’s not clickbait. Anyway, I’d be remiss if I let this popular video go unmentioned here. We just found out about the Aéroplume in France which lets visitors strap into giant balloons and fly them […]

ofsparrows – good luck, roomba witch

Posted on July 11th, 2020 by Hitstun

ofsparrows: tfw your folks replace the (perfectly serviceable!!!) old hoover with a roomba and you don’t have a god damn clue how you’re gonna fly the thing ETA: so i tried out a few suggestions in the tags and (PRINT!🌇) There’s no going back to how things used to be, for better or worse. It’s […]

Casey Neistat – Human Flying Drone

Posted on December 23rd, 2016 by Hitstun

I finally dig my way out of backlogs and fake news and find a ten foot monster drone carrying a snowboarding filmmaker. Doesn’t that make it a helicopter instead? Casey Neistat, best known for crashing his bike, puts his life in the hands of the world’s largest homemade drone as it tows him all over […]

Flyboard Air Test 1

Posted on April 14th, 2016 by Hitstun

Now this is a hoverboard! Zapata Racing makes those water jetpacks for your feet, and now they’re cranking up the power and making a Flyboard that flies through open air. The Flyboard Air can apparently fly for 10 minutes at up to 93 mph and 10,000 feet. If even half of this is real, I […]

Spruce Creek Fly-In Community

Posted on October 21st, 2015 by Hitstun

It’s 2015; where are our flying cars? In his search for flying cars, James May visited Spruce Creek, Florida. This village treats airplanes like cars, parked in garages and taxied right down the street to the local runway. If every town was this well adapted to small planes, we’d all be flying from place to […]