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The physics doesn't sound too great either. A small wing like that will need a fair amount of speed to fly, especially when you thrown in the drag of a human standing on top of it. Of course, once it reaches the speed needed, the human may no longer be standing on it, so it's probably all good.
 
The physics doesn't sound too great either. A small wing like that will need a fair amount of speed to fly, especially when you thrown in the drag of a human standing on top of it. Of course, once it reaches the speed needed, the human may no longer be standing on it, so it's probably all good.
Other than launching while airborne from a helicopter or ramp of a C-130 I can't imagine another way of getting this thing in the air safely for all involved.

In flight, it would be like towing a parachute or worse.
 
Huge amounts of drag. Also, I wonder if the speed needed would make holding onto that rope almost impossible
 
* Designed by a Purdouchebag who lists the age at which he "started flying planes" as a qualification. Run don't walk.
 
Yet we still don't know at what age you began flying. I think the alumni association would like to have a word with you.
Flew with my dad as a toddler, so that means I'm qualified to design a spaceship.....or at least post something on Kickstarter.

The last time my alumni association called asking for money and feigning interest in my career, I told them I was a pornographer. (Didn't attend Purdue, I have some pride. Or, at least I used to.)

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Whenever I see some wacky aviation vaporware project, I think of the Skycar.
 
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It will never work, at least not his prototype design from what I can see. Wake Turbulence.

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Also, couldn't you have just as much fun with a hang-glider? I mean really, it only seems the difference would be standing on the wing versus being strapped in. And then the whole added danger being towed behind a powered aircraft. No way Jose!
 
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