Dec 20, 2010: Lucy THM

xoxoxoBruce · 12-19-2010, 11:29 PM

While Elspode is waiting for his flying car, and others are waiting for their Jetson's jetpack, Lucy wants to satisfy your desire for personal wings.

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•Lucy THM is a new type of micro aircraft designed to provide unprecedented personal mobility.
•Key flight performance characteristics are: ultra short take off and landing (with a run of less than 15 meters and very steep climbing and approaching paths); rapid reach of high altitude; dragster-like acceleration; manoeuvrability and control at flight speeds near zero.
These characteristics are made possible by combining a thrust greater than the weight of the aircraft with a compact and innovative aerodynamic architecture that fits in the airstream of a propeller with a very large diameter.

If that don't set the dogs to barkin', I don't know what will.

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The pilot, in fact, is seated inside an anthropomorphous fairing in a motorcycle-like posture and he wraps himself around the structure which is then perceived as a physical extension of himself: a “technological suit” worn to get yourself about in the air.
The sensation is that of manoeuvring the controls to move yourself through the air and not, as usually happens, to move the plane.

Hey George, look out for that tree.

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ZenGum · 12-20-2010, 05:00 AM

Wow. So crazy I want one.

Griff · 12-20-2010, 05:20 AM

WANT

SPUCK · 12-20-2010, 05:30 AM

Looks freak'n alien! Especially from the back.

monster · 12-20-2010, 07:23 AM

MIL could use one of these right now...... do they come in banana color?

12-20-2010, 05:00 AM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Wow. So crazy I want one. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-20-2010, 05:20 AM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	WANT __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-20-2010, 07:23 AM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	MIL could use one of these right now...... do they come in banana color? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

12-20-2010, 05:30 AM	#4
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Looks freak'n alien! Especially from the back.

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