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Suspended by a wire from a long pole or a crane , is an ornithopter suit. You climb in, take a quick run up then launch yourself forwards. after a minute of flapping you are circling the pole or crane, gradually picking up speed and height.
It works exactly like the toys you can buy in a toyshop,
only much larger and human powered. You could cheat and use a propeller and bicycle style gears but the purist would want to flap.
The closest thing to being a bird you'll get without going to a huge hyperbaric lavatube on the moon!
There is a motorized version of this (the propeller version anyway) but I couldn't find it on the web.
Counterbalance World
http://www.halfbake...nterbalance_20World
Similar [AO, Oct 04 2004]
Fly by Wire
http://www.extremed...ms.co.uk/flybywire/
Apparently it turns you green and makes your tongue grow [nichpo, Oct 04 2004]
<Spanish accent> Wires, we don need no steenkeen wires.
http://www.halfbake...lapping_20flight_2e
Just some helium. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 04 2004]
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Would the wire be long enough so I can fly to the moon? |
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Baked in NZ. It's a giant outdoors one. See Link. |
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Looks fun, but more like a giant swing than anything (my interpretation of the "figure 8" description) |
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