For Sale: Rocket Belts.
Rocket belts are finally here, thanks to Mexican company Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana (TAM). Yours for a mere $250,000 (yes, there is a weight restriction).
Link – via Popular Mechanics, Thanks Laurel Donaldson!
Rocket belts are finally here, thanks to Mexican company Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana (TAM). Yours for a mere $250,000 (yes, there is a weight restriction).
Link – via Popular Mechanics, Thanks Laurel Donaldson!
Chris
*yes, there is a weight restriction*
d'oh!
Weakly
I've heard using a rocket belt described as, "taking your life in your hands to travel 60 feet."
Sid Morrison
These will be great now that they are doing another "Bionic Women" show this Fall. In the mid 60s - late 1970s, TV action shows always seems to work hard to construct plots that demanded the hero(ine) strap one of these on to "save the day".
I'm not sure I would trust one made in Mexico, though...
Dave
Browsing through the linked site there are videos & snapshots a-plenty, but not much proof that the pictured rocket packs actually work. Great promo photo with a row of packs that appear to be ready to ship, but great promo photos won't catch you if the thing flips you upside down and slams you into the ground from 60 feet up.
I'm with Sid on this one; Mexico? Not on your life (let alone mine!)
Alex
Hope you're not driving a Ford made in Mexico, Dave and Sid!
Andrew32
Finally here!
Solo
I bet if you ask them nicely they will sell you a bridge too!
Sid Morrison
Nope, I am not driving a Ford made in Mexico. But even if I were, there is a big difference between something that leaves you on the side of the road when it fails and something that leaves in a crumpled pile ON the road when it falls. There isn't a lot of room for error with gizmos like these.
Additionally, keep in mind the Fords (and other marques as well) are not *engineered* in Mexico, only assembled after many years of prior assembly in the First World. It's sometimes done there now on especially cost-sensitive models (read "cheap") because the labor costs are very low. The technology is pretty established and the catastrophic failure modes are few. So what if a mirror falls off or a piece of trim rattles...
When Mexico learns to engineer (and then build) its own motorcycles, cars, airplanes, and helicopters first, then we can consider them as a viable source for rocket pack expertise. There's a little catch up needed for them to prove themselves.
Straight talk from Sid.
Jennifer
Excellent.
Now where is my hover car?
Ematitan
I am impressed how racist americans can be.
Look at MIT and others research centers. Indians, Brasilians, Chinese, Japanese, Greeks, but few Americans working there.
Brasil has the best ever technology on finding and extracting petroil. Indias got their own digital cinema technology. Why can´t Mexico build something like that?
You really think you are the center of the world, don´t you? Obviusly You don´t know nothing about Mexico and other "undeveloped" countries...
wannabe
*cheers Ematitan wildly* It's kind of embarrassing to be American sometimes ...
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