The rocket pack collective thread

[Maets]

Looking good number 10.  Many happy rocket flights.

[llama492]

Well hi ya folks My name be Benjamin I bin a buildin a pack for your delight. I named mine the AirWitch. Made out of a old fuel tank for a boat some brass and some outher goodies hope this looks good enough to fly with you guys and gals.O by the way i love all the packs keep em a comin  . http://www.flickr.com/photos/41727587@N06/6051103401/#in/photostream

[Captain Shipton Bellinger]

That's a really, really nice pack, Benjamin. Rather reminds me of the flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. 

[celephicus]

They actually have belt thrusters using the H2O2 principal...  Bravo for practicallity!  Granted, in order for it to work, you'd need greater than 68% solution...

And again, BRAVO for knowing the reaction with platnium!  (I only just learned the other day, when looking up about the link I provided!)

I hate to nitpick (that is actually a lie, us mad scientists LOVE to nitpick!), but the wonderful thing about H₂O₂ and platinum is that the Pt is only a catalyst, so it does not react with the H₂O₂, which is lucky as concentrated H₂O₂ will react with just about anything. So your spongy Pt just sits there in the steam chamber getting very hot, while superheated steam comes out. I was going to call H₂O₂ "T-stoff". but I see that the genuine WW2 T-stoff had a stabiliser mixed in it to curb the oxidative tendancies of the pure H₂O₂. Of course all rocketeers will only wish to use the genuine 100% pure article purged of as much of that dratted H₂O as possible. I seem to remember that the conc. H₂O₂ can only be contained in glass, normal 316 stainless steel reacts very well with it. If memory serves iridium (chemically similar, but cheaper than Pt) is compatible with it, but you savants may want to check this before bolting one of these to your back

[barb dwyer]

I think it's a great pack, Benjamin!

[The Squire]

I just came across the 'jetpack' work of Canadian artist Jeff De Boer and found it quite beautiful.

http://www.jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/SpaceStuff/tabid/69/moduleid/413/viewkey/photo/photoid/434/Default.aspx

Also, check out his guns.

[Capt. Dirigible]

I just came across the 'jetpack' work of Canadian artist Jeff De Boer and found it quite beautiful.

http://www.jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/SpaceStuff/tabid/69/moduleid/413/viewkey/photo/photoid/434/Default.aspx

Also, check out his guns.

Oooooooooooooohh!! Love that rocket pack..and that helmet is really cool as well..oh..but that pair of duelling pistols in the case...just beautiful. His little spaceship models are cool too. Perhaps he and Herr Doktor could have a 'Far Too Talented For Their Own Good' contest?

[Mr Addams]

Have you seen his Cat Armour?

Or for that matter, his cat & Mouse rocket suits?

[Capt. Dirigible]

Have you seen his Cat Armour?

Or for that matter, his cat & Mouse rocket suits?

Oh I've seen that armour before without realising it was his. I'd love to see him..or anybody for that matter....try and put that armour on a cat! You'd need to wear claw proof armour yourself to achieve it.

[barb dwyer]

I've just spent a HOUR over at that site.

What amazing stuff.

[Herr Döktor]

Always liked Mr. DeBoer's work, in fact, I even posted a link to that very site some years ago;

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10145.msg189494.html#msg189494

Still, good to be reminded of it!

[barb dwyer]

yes!

Herr Doktor,
I thought of you when I saw them!

Saw.
Well.
Stared.
Studied.
Gawped.
More like.

[Orcon Windar]

Well hi ya folks My name be Benjamin I bin a buildin a pack for your delight. I named mine the AirWitch. Made out of a old fuel tank for a boat some brass and some outher goodies hope this looks good enough to fly with you guys and gals.O by the way i love all the packs keep em a comin  . http://www.flickr.com/photos/41727587@N06/6051103401/#in/photostream

Really cool! I like the use of the porthole.

Sorry I'm a little behind on this, I haven't been able to connect to the internet for a while unfortunately.

[maduncle]

More amazing stuff!

The work by Jeff De Boer is stunning, and the jet pack with the green window by Benjamin is brilliant!

I have posted off number 11, so there are still 14 left for more rocket/jet packs.

I am also going to do some more work on my pack, as it will be exhibited later next year, which gives me plenty of time to add more to it.

[llama492]

Thanks for the complements . I may just build another one i think this might get addicting.How else are we suppose to get around from ship to ship. I feel bad for them groundies. I should know i was one of them. Also how do i get one of them niffty numbers i may have to race someone ..

[maduncle]

Thanks for the complements . I may just build another one i think this might get addicting.How else are we suppose to get around from ship to ship. I feel bad for them groundies. I should know i was one of them. Also how do i get one of them niffty numbers i may have to race someone ..

You just PM me with your postal address and I put a number in the mail to you.

Too easy.

[The Squire]

The new National Geographic Magazine arrived today, and the cover story is 'Can We Fly?'

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/personal-flight/shute-text

Click on the 'Photo Gallery' to the left to see pictures of various attempts at "personal flight."

[barb dwyer]

forgive the interruption -

but I saw this today and thought of all you on this thread.


Something for us dreamers:

http://www.wimp.com/jetmanflight/

[maduncle]

forgive the interruption -

but I saw this today and thought of all you on this thread.


Something for us dreamers:

http://www.wimp.com/jetmanflight/

Thanks Barb - that was wonderful to watch (apart from the Avatar music).
I kept wondering what his landing options were, apart from gaining as much altitude as possible before pulling the 'chute cord!

[barb dwyer]

Uncle-

I *know*!

I kept thinking he was going to try and land on that
apparatus looking thin on top of that butte...

that scaffold looking thingy.

And yeah the music was 'woo-woo'
John Denver's 'Eagle and the Hawk' would work, though.

I'm glad it wasn't inappropriate for the thread.
I do enjoy reading here.

[Herr Döktor]

Jetman never gets old!

(the music was 'Adiemus', though, as ripped off by borrowed by James Horner for Avatar, though I'd have preferred 'Fly Like an Eagle' by the Steve Miller band )

Hmm, would a Steamed version of Jetman have biplane wings?

[Capt. Dirigible]

Jetman is very impressive ..but if you need a helicopter to take you up to a decent altitude before you can actually  'take to the air'..it's a bit pointless. Could he not just leap off a cliff top?

Oh and 'Jet Boy' by the New York Dolls would be my choice of music.

[Prof.James Hermonimus Smy]

does this qualify

[Herr Döktor]

There's something of the Boba Fett about that...

And yes, I'd say that it qualifies!

[maduncle]

does this qualify

Agree - it does most certainly qualify!

If you want a race number for it please PM me and let me know.