Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Remember that commercial a few years ago, a football player who had been knocked on the noggin and, upon being asked who he was, replied, “I’m BATMAN!” ?
I know some Navy guys that do similar trix. Stop by that training center down the street from the Del Coranado. They do stuff Hollywood hasn’t even thought of yet.
Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.
Flies blissfully, ignoring the upcoming wall…
Hard to wave off and go around!
Lets see, a 120 miles from 30K. Nearly a 20 to 1 g-ratio. Going to require some pretty big wings for all the bernoullis needed. Almost hang glider like size or bigger or a big propulsion pack. Plus, it’ll be a long time above 10K requiring O2…..
Captures the old imagination though if ya picture a Batman cape!
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Great site!! Semper
Lex;
I guessed you missed my post about your post service days back on 3/21…
The June Popular Mechanics (the dead tree version) has more on the Finnish guy from the video in the link, and he had now done about 6 miles in almost horizontal flight with a wingsuit…
Sure looks cheaper than a surplus F/A-18 in the back 40, but then the flight cycle is also just slightly shorter than an untanked one.
… because terrorists are a superstitious and cowardly lot.
Hmmmm. The other proportions, *especially* the 82nd one, are rather off.
But other than that, works for me!
Kewler than flying under the airmattress looking thingys. I always got dizzy trying to spin into the clearings.
Again a combat/deliverly system looking for a mission.That SAS trooper quoted in the article had it righ. HALO as a concept works.. when used operationally it’s been a bust…especally for the jumpers. Best
I want to be the narrator for the flight demonstration team. It will be a shorter show than the “Blues” do now; no take-offs, vertical rolls or diamond loops.