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Tuesday, 08/02/2016 6:56:53 AM

Tuesday, August 02, 2016 6:56:53 AM

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Zapata Racing / Zapata Industries uses four of these P400 RC model plane engines from the German company Jetcat Jetcat Turbines normally used for Radio Controlled planes. They produce 88 pounds of thrust each, four of them produce a maximum total of 352 pounds of thrust. Thrust cannot be converted to horsepower, so any quoted figures regarding horsepower can be discounted as hyperbole. The software being used by ZR is tweaked open source software with provisions preventing military usage. The tiny turbines scream like little banshees at 130,000 RPM. 120 - 130 decibels. As an officer from the US military notes in the article below, “I guess we won’t be surprising anyone.”

Article from the WSJ: Jetpacks reaching the mainstream

Even Google couldn’t make it work. “The jetpack is a death trap because the engines go off and you’re dead,” says Astro Teller, the head of X, the so-called moonshot factory of Google parent Alphabet Inc.



For a development team worth acquiring in this space look at Jetpack Aviation
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