Jet Man flies across Channel on a wing

As he crossed the White Cliffs of Dover just after 1.05pm Rossy even had enough fuel left in the four kerosene-burning turbines powering his self-designed, homemade device for some celebratory aerobatics to entertain the crowds gathered below.

Can an Atlantic crossing be far behind?

Here's the psycho crazyman daredevil in flight.

He's not alone, here's another jetman with mini jets strapped to his ankles.

At least they aren't as crazy as these guys.  Base jumping in Norway.

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The video ends with a tribute - "In memory of Steve-o"  I wonder if Steve passed away quietly in his bed from old age....

Flying Cars, Jetpacks and Rocket Racers, Oh My!

The Experimental Aircraft Association Annual AirVenture Show in Oshkosh Wisconsin.  Which includes exactly what the title of the Popular Science video says it does.  Flying cars  (although we don't see it fly), jetpacks (although its actually a prop-pack not jet and it only "flies" 15 feet and under control of two guys on the ground)

The Rocket Racer section sounds pretty cool and they had one up in the air screaming along on it's rocket.  And the PR guy looked a little like another PR guy I know, talking about the business plan and the consumer.

As a very interesting side note:  The Experimental Aircraft Association's site has been partially pwned!  At there very same time as one of your peaks of popularity.  An article in Pop-Sci, linked via Instapundit.  They just need to remove the index.html file from their server, it's not the default document so this is a rookie pwn.

...in retrospect after a bit of researching, this is in fact a fail!  The hacker thought he knew what he was doing but his weak skillz are exposed.  He didn't replace the default document.  Only index.html (not even default.html)

Screenshot.

Rookie.

I saw this episode on Top Gear (which is an awesome show BTW) wherein they raced a Bugatti Veyron against a Euro-fighter.  The fighter jet had to go 1 mile vertical and back and the Bugatti had to go 1 mile horizontal and back. 

Well here is a home video of the event.

Pretty cool.

Oh alright, here's the original:

1. Cool blog

If you haven't read RoughType by NIcholas Carr well...you should...Always insightful. He writes about the topics that I wish I had thought of first. Sometimes I do think of them first but usually not.

Definitely a daily reader

2. Cool Web Thing: Fractal World Gallery

Are you tired of the average wallpaper? do you want something different? Then go over here. These are incredible. Fractal World Gallery

I read a book series by Tad Williams a couple of years ago called: Otherland. I don't know why exactly but these fractal pictures remind me of those books.

3. Cool Real World Thing

So to jump back to a post from a few days ago [linky - SR71] I went and found a couple of videos of the SR-71 Blackbird. video. It looks like something out of Star Wars.

4. Cool Science

Ruben's Tube: real live sound visualation with flame.

How fast was the Blackbird? oh yeah...that fast.

heh: Good joke: The King of Speed.

"Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?"

There was no hesitation, and the reply came as if was an everyday request:

"Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."

Gimme a second heh for that one