Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

You know it’s true because it’s 2020. Remember that whole alien thing back in April? Me neither because about 10 years worth of events has happened in the past four and a half months.

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Post by sandworm101 » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

>> They are also very high-profile in nature and require a mothership to launch from, such as a helicopter, or at least a very high point to leap from.

No. Yves "Jetman" Rossi's design can now launch from a standing position on the ground. It is able to launch, hover, transition to forward flight and zoom-climb to several thousand feet. Other than the landing, which is currently still via parachute ... ironman.

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Post by ethbr0 » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

I guess Elon finally finished the Mark II.

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Post by mdorazio » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

I'm surprised that there's not a single picture of this from any of the passengers on the landing flight and that ATC didn't seem to confirm it via radar, either.

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Post by cma » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #5

You know it’s true because it’s 2020. Remember that whole alien thing back in April? Me neither because about 10 years worth of events has happened in the past four and a half months.

Most of that alien stuff was miscalculating velocities by not taking into account field of view (zoom in/out) changes in the camera.

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Post by josephpmay » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

How are there no passenger videos?