After some more thought:
Ladies and gentlemen!
Welcome to the inaugural RED BULL Jet Skyboard World Series Round One !
In this case noise and perceived danger are features, not bugs.
I'm not prepared to bet against this. I'd like to see the things
after a few years of competitive racing, particularly if the
competition format made fuel consumption an issue i.e. quick
re-fuellings, the fewer the better for best overall time.
Mike
At 08:33 AM 5/3/2016, you wrote:
Well, lets see:
Skyboard
Gliding
Noisy - 4 turbines,
yep
Towplanes. Ever lived near a busy gliding airfield? I have.
Expensive - 4 turbines plus bits and pieces, around
A$60,000 Yep, same
order of magnitude in cost
Inefficient - yep, high fuel
burn
Don't forget the trip to and from the gliding club in the 2 tonne
4WD, launching and the odd retrieve
Useless - Yep a bit of fun and maybe for Frankie some great
publicity for his day job Just a bit of fun, no good
for anything else
Dangerous(forgot that one) Probably, current fatalities
zero Yep, pile
of bodies(more been done though)
Future - someone may figure out a real use for this or a similar
device Been enough done for long
enough any real use unlikely (troop carrying gliders were a REALLY BAD idea)
(quadcopter with human standing on it) Spectacular, piloted version
of drone racing (now there's an idea Chad)
Mike
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