Which brings up a question of why multi-million dollar airlines don't have "dash cams"
Plausible deniability.
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
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#42ATCs have a reputation for never losing their cool and that really shines through here: “Tower, there’s a guy in a jetpack flying outside.” “Copy. To your left or your right?”
Just in case someone on HN still haven't read the famous SR-71 speed check story: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
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#43Nobody is going to mention how this is an overly-hyped PR stunt?
edit: Nevermind, I thought the embedded youtube videos in the article was footage of the event described in the article. I didn't realize the video footage was a separate flight from 2015.
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#44You 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.
On this, a Youtube creator Julie Nolke had a fairly popular couple of videos on "Explaining the Pandemic to my past self"[1] in April and a part 2 in June[2]. The first one was hilarious, and I struggle to believe that was only in April. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyDpP2s-og
Thanks for posting that. That was great.
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#45And nobody on the plane recorded it?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder about this. If he was off the wing, could the pilots actually see him with their own eyes? Off the wing tip is actually rather far back on a modern airliner. Pilots wouldn't leave the cockpit to look during approach. I have to assume these were reports passed on by people in the cabin. If so, where are the pictures?
No, I believe what happened is that the "jetpack" was either hovering or flying at low speed, and the airplane flew by it. So the pilots could see it approaching and get a visual on the jetpack before it zipped by the side.
So a relatively fixed object that they passed at speed? There is even more room there for size distortion. A doll hanging from a drone? A partially-inflated balloon of some sort? Once one person radios "jetman" then subsequent spotters will tend towards that description too.
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#47I don’t imagine it was these guys but another “Ironman” type flight suit I’ve been following is the tech from https://gravity.co/ - it looks like so much fun although I’m sure it’s much harder to use that the videos suggest.
I think those look really exhausting and unnatural since you have to carry your whole bodyweight on your arms.
Seriously, try suspending yourself with your hands on two chair backs. Now imagine doing that for many minutes at a time, while also withstanding heavy vibration and precisely controlling your flight.
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#48Nobody is going to mention how this is an overly-hyped PR stunt? edit: Nevermind, I thought the embedded youtube videos in the article was footage of the event described in the article. I didn't realize the video footage was a separate flight from 2015.
Where is the footage you mention?
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#49Nobody is going to mention how this is an overly-hyped PR stunt? edit: Nevermind, I thought the embedded youtube videos in the article was footage of the event described in the article. I didn't realize the video footage was a separate flight from 2015.
The jetpackers in the video at the bottom of the article aren't the same jetpackers the article is about. The people in the video clearly have permission as you pointed out, but I don't think we can say for sure as to whether the person at LAX did.
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#50Nobody is going to mention how this is an overly-hyped PR stunt? edit: Nevermind, I thought the embedded youtube videos in the article was footage of the event described in the article. I didn't realize the video footage was a separate flight from 2015.
Can you please link to the footage?