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Fred Voorhees
05-09-2006, 8:33 PM
You, too, can be like rocky the squirrel.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=63CwsiAqLcA

Tyler Howell
05-09-2006, 8:53 PM
I want one!:cool:

Lee DeRaud
05-09-2006, 9:13 PM
There's a Darwin Award lurking somewhere in that video, just waiting to get out.:eek:

Bruce Shiverdecker
05-10-2006, 1:57 AM
Scares me and I'm fearless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeh RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIGGGHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! NOT! Cluck Cluck.

Bruce

Vaughn McMillan
05-10-2006, 3:48 AM
Ground tracking at 120 mph+, with just a helmet and a pair of MC Hammer pants between you and the rocks? I wonder if those guys have trouble walking with cojones that big. Wowsers.

- Vaughn

Roger Everett
05-10-2006, 5:30 AM
Looks like a load of fun. Maybe 25 years ago, now I would probably need some paper and fresh Hanes.
Roger

Bill Lewis
05-10-2006, 5:42 AM
Those guys better not get an itch that needs scratching.

Ken Fitzgerald
05-10-2006, 8:32 AM
It would be my "luck" to have a thread unravel at 8,000 feet in both the suit and the parachute!:D

Brad Tallis
05-10-2006, 2:53 PM
Check out this guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7shtZKgHbU&search=rocket%20man

He straps rockets to his feet and jumps off of a hot air balloon...

Brad

Andy Hoyt
05-10-2006, 3:43 PM
And then there's always the low tech approach. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6943201001782160188&q=jet+pack)

Very low.

Dennis Peacock
05-10-2006, 5:09 PM
And then there's always the low tech approach. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6943201001782160188&q=jet+pack)

Very low.

ROFL!!!!!!!! :rolleyes: :D

Bill Lewis
05-11-2006, 6:12 AM
And then there's always the low tech approach. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6943201001782160188&q=jet+pack) "Mythbusters" attemped to reproduce this one without success. They couldn't get all of the bottles to fire simultaneously