{"id":3830,"date":"2007-11-08T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/08\/the-world-of-the-future-creeps-closer-every-day-department-the-wingsuit\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:10:47","slug":"the-world-of-the-future-creeps-closer-every-day-department-the-wingsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"The World Of The Future creeps closer every day department: The Wingsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did I not know this exists in real life?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenix-fly.com\/products\/Ghost_1.htm\"><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/wingsuit.jpg' alt='wingsuit' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See below the fold for more, including a video&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kt692UuRMyg&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kt692UuRMyg&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And in more &#8220;future creep&#8221; developments, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wingsuit_flying\">Wikipedia reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 25th of 2005 in Lahti Finland, the BirdMan Rocket Team successfully experimented with small jet engines attached to the feet of BirdMan Visa Parviainen. The jets provided approximately 16 kgf of thrust each and ran on kerosene (JetA-1) fuel. Visa was able to achieve approximately 30 seconds of horizontal flight with no noticeable loss of altitude. Once the fuel ran out, Visa continued to fly in normal Birdman flight until deployment altitude. Deployment and landing were uneventful. The flight was considered a success as it proved that level human flight was not only possible but sustainable with the use of jet engines and a Birdman suit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icarusreport.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/dont-look-back.html\"><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/wingsuit2.jpg' alt='Wingsuiters diving off a cliff.' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want my hovercar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I not know this exists in real life? See below the fold for more, including a video&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-blowing-miscellania-and-other-neat-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}