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PSPS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:08 PM
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Special forces to use strap-on 'Batwings'
Special forces to use strap-on 'Batwings'
By MATTHEW HICKLEY, Daily Mail 13:33pm 6th June 2006

Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.

The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target.

The technology was demonstrated in spectacular fashion three years ago when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner - a pioneer of freefall gliding - famously 'flew' across the English Channel, leaping out of an aircraft 30,000ft above Dover and landing safely near Calais 12 minutes later.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=389357&in_page_id=1770
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:11 PM
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1. Oooohhh!
That's cool!

This *is* the 21st Century, after all... Flash Gordon's Flying Belts are almost here.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:12 PM
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2. Look at that crotch shot! Has bush* seen this?
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 11:13 PM by Raster
Sorry, couldn't resist. It really is cool.
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CAG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:19 PM
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3. How cool is that?!!!! One of these days maybe I can commute to work
in somethin like that
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:26 PM
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4. Iiiiiiinteresting--any connection to this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1400054915/ref=dp_image_0/104-0373018-1985550?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155&s=books



Anyone read this? I got a quick look at it in the store, and it does cover some of the recent experimentation in this area.
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:29 PM
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5. Is it reusable, or disposable?
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:36 PM
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6. da da da da da da daaaa Bat Man
wowsie
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:39 PM
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7. Holy occupying force! n/t
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