Jettiness - snow, skier....and Jetpack! - Granite Grok

Jettiness – snow, skier….and Jetpack!

I used to put up a lot more of these kinds of video – jets attached to things other than on planes.  This one took me be surprise when I saw it but here it is!

“…Flisar frantically straps into his handy jetpack and relies on its 88 lb (40 kg) of thrust to send him speeding up to 75 mph (120 km/h), uphill, downhill, over streets, down stairs and across football fields and frozen water, in his hometown of Maribor, Slovenia. He even throws in some impressive cornering.

The jetpack in question was built in response to an Instagram challenge, and Flisar first used it last year to thrust around the snow of Slovenia’s Pokljuka Plateau. Flisar developed the hot-firing jet-turbine backpack with help from a technician, and according to Red Bull, it runs at up to 96,000 rpm and reaches scorching temperatures of 1,562° F (850° C). It looks easier to ski with than a handheld thruster and, from what we’ve seen, is faster on the snow.”

(H/T: Red Bull via New Atlas)

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