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09-26-2008, 06:55 PM
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It is the stuff of dreams Frank, or nightmares depending on how things go. Maybe he'll do all the critical T and E for us. Here is some more ...
The clip of the crossing of the English Channel  Just step up and slide in  Will it work, strips paint great!  Free fall  It's a race  Winning  Photos from: From: http://fotogaleri.samanyoluhaber.com/galeri/946/4  Touch down From: http://www.impactlab.com/2007/04/28/...he-flying-man/ Kinda reminds me of a movie... Who remembers this one? Not bad for a Disney flick either.  From: http://makeitsomarketing.tripod.com/...pic_id=1085512
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09-27-2008, 07:33 AM
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Fusion Man
There was an hour long special on last night at 11pm on the NGC channel showing his flight from Calais to Dover.
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09-27-2008, 12:59 PM
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I'm sure the military has already got plans for it's use. And it would give suicide bombing a whole new perspective. As if they needed any more ideas.
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09-27-2008, 01:23 PM
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Sorry I missed it Frank, sounds like an interesting program.
USA Today had the following ... wiss man flies over English Channel on jet-propelled wing 9/26/2008 2:53 PM **View Full StoryDOVER, England (AP) -- He had nothing above him but four tanks of kerosene and nothing below him but the cold waters of the English Channel. But Yves Rossy leapt from a plane and into the record books on Friday, crossing the channel on a homemade jet-propelled wing. Rossy jumped from the plane about 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) over Calais, France, blasting across the narrow body of water and deploying his parachute over the South Foreland lighthouse, delighting onlookers who dotted Dover's famous white cliffs, cheering and waving as Rossy came into view. Backed by a gentle breeze, Rossy crossed the Channel in 13 minutes, averaging 200 kilometers (125 miles) per hour. In a final flourish, he did a figure eight as he came over England, although the wind blew him away from his planned landing spot next to the lighthouse. "It was perfect. Blue sky, sunny, no clouds, perfect conditions," the Swiss pilot said after touching down in an adjacent field. He said he wanted to show, "it is possible to fly, a little bit, like a bird." Onlookers scooped up their children, picnics and dogs to race to the landing site as Rossy posed for photographs. His ground crew doused him with champagne, and the pilot swigged greedily from the bottle as he waved to the band of onlookers gathered to cheer him and take pictures with cellphone cameras. A small airplane zipped across the sky with a banner that read: "Well done Jet Man." Rossy said he had watched passenger ferries cutting a path between the Britain and France as he tore through the air. "I was happy to be faster than them," he said. The 49-year-old said the Channel crossing was the realization of a dream. "That's the most gratifying thing you can do," he said. Rossy's trip twice delayed due to bad weather was meant to trace the route of French aviator Louis Bleriot, the first person to cross the narrow body of water in an airplane 99 years ago.
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10-01-2008, 04:14 PM
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 Look at what I saw on the homepage of the Sunsentinel. Looking good. "World Cup of Surfing (CARSTEN REHDER, EFE) Tony Frans competes during the World Cup of Surfing in Westerland, Germany on Tuesday, Sept. 30." Just don't let it go to your heads, they also had this ...  Captioned: "The Lizard Birthday; Meat Cake With Mice (DARON DEAN, THE ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD/ASSOCIATED PRESS) Krakatoa, the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park’s 75-pound, 7.5-foot long Komodo Dragon, celebrates his eighth birthday with fellow eight-year-olds from R.B. Hunt Elementary School Wednesday, Oct. 1. The children sang Happy Birthday to the large lizard as he was presented with a meat cake topped with mice." Sponge Bob, a meat pie topped with mice and an excited Komodo Dragon, there's an image! uh, got any white cake instead?
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FKA, Inc. transcribed by: Rick Iossi
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10-12-2008, 10:10 PM
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Last edited by ricki; 10-14-2008 at 07:56 PM.
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10-13-2008, 09:37 PM
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I love all these pics!!!! and vids. good stuff
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