The pilot is Franky Zapata, the inventor of the Flyboard, which is a water powered version of the Airboard. He appears to be extremely capable on the water powered Flyboard so I would expect he would be equally at home on a jet turbine powered unit.
I really don't think it is a fake. usually with these things there is only one scratchy video. He has several high quality video's showing take-off, landing and generally flying around. If you look at the video from Mike's link, he clearly takes off and flies away. I have downloaded the video and gone over it frame by frame, I can't see where it is faked. I'm with Mike on this one, if you are sure it is a fake please let me know what you can see that I am missing. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Ross McLean From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Friday, 15 April 2016 1:06 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] skyboard At 08:07 AM 4/15/2016, you wrote: fake Do you have some knowledge or a link you can share with us that says it is fake and gives some evidence? Because nothing being shown is physically impossible. Last year we had the JB-9 jetpack flying around the Statue of Liberty. 2 x AMT Nike engines for 160 Kg thrust. Was that fake too? The guy with the jet powered wingsuit, Yves Rossy? This thing could use 4 x AMT Titan engines for 160Kg total thrust. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble for a fake. Note the two electric ducted fans either side for yaw control, the hand held controllers. There's another vid showing the takeoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn99MimWOxA Note the gridded takeoff platform to prevent hot gas re-ingestion into the engines. Zapata Racing, the company involved already make various water powered jetpacks for recreational use. Water is pumped through a hose and ejected downwards for thrust. So the pilot is likely an experienced jetpack/platform user. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com <http://www.borgeltinstruments.com/> tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia
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