Zoooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!!

[Undave]

Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

No! It\'s FUSION MAN!

 

[Roger Bunting]

I wondered if anyone would post something about that.

 

[Farin]

just wow

1. remarkable feat of engineering
2. kudos for not burning his rear with the hot gas from the turbines

i´m just wondering how much fuel he got...

 

[Dragonsreach]

Why did I just hear \"To Infinity and Beyond\".

 

[Yetie]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Why did I just hear \"To Infinity and Beyond\".

So true.
But fair play to the guy for building them himself and trusting his building skills.

 

[evil tendencies]

I am always amazed at the dramatic confluence of genius and lunacy.

 

[Zora]

We just call it \"lunius\"...:bouncy:

 

[mud duck]

<singing in my best Will Shatner>
Rocket Man

burning though the skies

up there

a lone!

Be

Cause

I

Am

A

Rocket

Man!

</singing.>


Sorry about that. Low fruit and all that...

 

[wiccanpony]

lol case of beans = FUSION MAN

 

[supervike]

That is pretty darn cool.

It had to have a lot of lift, because that guys got some seriously big balls!


(thats in reference to jumping out of a perfectly good plane with hundreds of pounds of metal and fuel strapped to your back, not to the actual size of his testicles or any other male genetalia.)


(not that I know the size of his testicles, for all I know the are normally sized, but then again maybe they are overly large, whatever, my point being, that it takes big balls to do what he did)

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Thanks a lot, supervike. Now I have to listen to AC/DC to get that stupid song out of my head.

I\'ve got big balls.
You\'ve got big balls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9pMJYXGBs

 

[Undave]

I think I may have put my foot in it. I was showing this to one of my mates and saying how it would be so much fun to try it and he said that he\'d do it too but I had to go first. As there is obviously no way that we\'d ever be able to make one I agreed.

He then pointed out that another one of our mates works in the Rolls Royce plant building jet engines....... It\'s a good thing I\'m not scared of heights

 

[Roger Bunting]

My friend used to work in the Rolls Royce plant in Barnoldswick. That\'s where they tested the engines by throwing chickens at them (the chickens were already dead and were bought from a supermarket).

 

[mud duck]

I wonder if they where model jet engines. Those things can get pretty large and if he need 4 of them.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

With the speed required to keep such a small craft aloft, he would have had to be SMMMOKI\'N at landing.

 

[rextalon]

I\'m confused. Did nobody hear about this when it was done the first time? Doesn\'t anyone remember it from a few years back? I don\'t understand why it\'s such big news now.