Skyboard!

[Naki]

Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_XMg9non9o

http://www.skyboardnz.com/

 

[harleyman]

That looks like it may turn into something..It sure looked un as heck to me even though I am terrefied of heights...LOL

 

[kilo delta]

Haven't some military special forces use these for years?

 

[Matt Wynn]

cool looks fun.... i'd give it a whirl!

 

[jmig]

Looks like a neat way to sent a recon force unseen and unheard into the enemy camp.

 

[Matt Wynn]

Looks like a neat way to sent a recon force unseen and unheard into the enemy camp.

one major problem, for long distance insertion HAHO is preferred plus if 4 of you use these boards thats 8 chutes, and you can't steer where the board will land... could land right on top of an enemy patrol a mile from your landing area and within 5 minutes every man and a rifle will be looking for you, at least with standalone chute and HAHO theres a way to guide your equipment, only other option is to abandon the board directly over your landing area, and keep orbiting, but again this increases loiter time in hostile territory, if it was me... give me the oxygen kit, and sitting on a parachute for 60mins+ if the board was more steerable in it's final descent instead of relying on a T-10 style of chute then maybe it would be more viable, reminds me of trials the SAS dis testing a box containing kit, they fell freefall with it, none of the men liked the idea so one disconnected the Automatic Chute Deployment and it crashed to earth and project was scrubbed

... this thing i would gladly play with of a weekend though :salute:

 

[kilo delta]

There was also a plan to insert special forces in "drop tanks" carried under wing on Harriers!:isadizzy:

 

[Wing_Z]

Wow, now how about tying a big elastic to the helicopter , and...wait, they've already done that! :d
There's something in the drinking water down there I believe.
(South Island, NZ)

 

[cheezyflier]

meh, it seemed cool til i realized you couldn't land it like a plane.

 

[Bjoern]

There was also a plan to insert special forces in "drop tanks" carried under wing on Harriers!:isadizzy:

That idea is as old as WW2. I think it was used by the Luftwaffe a few times or so for infiltration works.
Need to hunt down more info.

 

[kilo delta]

The Luftwaffe flew Harriers during WWII?!


>>Here's more info on the Harrier project<< click

 

[kilo delta]

Haven't some military special forces use these for years?

To answer my own question.......Not exactly...but possibly similar

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-389357/Special-forces-use-strap-Batwings.html

http://www.eliteukforces.info/rumours/sas-bat-wings.php

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/12/stealth_jetplane_pack_special_forces/

 

[Bjoern]

The Luftwaffe flew Harriers during WWII?!

http://luftarchiv.de/
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