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JZ
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How fun will it be to fly a Jetson One down canyons in Baja?
Coming soon.
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Bob and Susan
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wow...of course i would CRASH it first time up
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larryC
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Asamblea canyon comes to mind first for me, Wow that would be fun.
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
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mtgoat666
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Looks like a fragile toy. Bump one blade against a rock or tree and the whole thing goes down, destroying all four blades (and motors and drive
mechanicals) in the process. Bet it won’t be cheap to repair!
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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Salsa
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Threads like this makes it easy to see who is on the left or right !!!!!!!!!!!
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SFandH
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Ruh-roh, do they have an Astro model? 
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pacificobob
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You must be exceptionally perceptive. I can't glean anything like that from this thread.
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John Harper
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Usually, the pilot is on the left and the co-pilot on the right. But this looks like a one seater, so that may confuse you.
John
[Edited on 5-9-2022 by John Harper]
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mtgoat666
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Quote: Originally posted by John Harper  |
Usually, the pilot is on the left and the co-pilot on the right. But this looks like a one seater, so that may confuse you.
John
[Edited on 5-9-2022 by John Harper] |
You aint putting 2 people on this death trap! you cat even put a fat man on it! weight limit is 210 lbs.
Batteries last 15 minutes. Maybe batteries will last longer if flight direction is all downhill, eh?
Price is $95,000 USD. Expensive toy! awful expensive for unskilled thrill seeking. remember the segway scooter? everybody got excited about the
skegway, and it crashed/burned due to price. any of you bought a VR headset or 3D TV? waste of money!
I would rather spend my money vacationing at Alta, drinking expensive wine and eating good food.
[Edited on 5-9-2022 by mtgoat666]
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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John Harper
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Goatster,
Who cares? Neither you nor I are the least bit interested in a new age gyrocopter. Let it go.
JZ likes to post up about new tech toys, a real positive thing he does for the forum. I may not buy the stuff, but it is interesting. Better than
wasting our time on masks and covid posts.
Sometimes I wonder if you have a sense of humor. I hope you do.
John
[Edited on 5-10-2022 by John Harper]
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AKgringo
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If you are looking for an expensive toy....
For a hundred grand you can get started on a great Baja project (you better have lots more cash to finish it!) https://www.autoblog.com/2022/05/09/scg-008-baja-dakar-buggy...
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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thebajarunner
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what is your point??
| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Looks like a fragile toy. Bump one blade against a rock or tree and the whole thing goes down, destroying all four blades (and motors and drive
mechanicals) in the process. Bet it won’t be cheap to repair!
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The first day I took a private pilot lesson my instructor made the same comments, but they applied to any and all aircraft as far as I can tell
Bump a rock, eat dirt...
However, some years back my wife and I were given a private couple of hours with the Thunderbirds in their special hangar at Nellis (My secretary's
husband was the frotn pilot two different tours for them)
I commented to one of the pilots that it was hard to imagine flying that close and never touching..... "Oh we bang against each other on a regular
basis" he responded.
To this day I do not know if he was serious or just joshing, but he had a pretty straight face when he said it.
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LancairDriver
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I doubt that machine will ever fly down thru many Baja canyons for all of the reasons previously given here. Fun to imagine it however. To actually
experience that kind of rush and survive you need a high performance airplane and lots of experience flying it. Many cases of some who tried it and
wound up splattered on some remote canyon wall.Any low level flying is fun, illegal, and is risky business.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by LancairDriver | I doubt that machine will ever fly down thru many Baja canyons for all of the reasons previously given here. Fun to imagine it however. To actually
experience that kind of rush and survive you need a high performance airplane and lots of experience flying it. Many cases of some who tried it and
wound up splattered on some remote canyon wall.Any low level flying is fun, illegal, and is risky business.
[Edited on 5-10-2022 by LancairDriver] |
A few cheaper alternatives to seeing a canyon:
Hike;
Parasail;
Hire a helicopter.
Woke!
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David K
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Helicopter in Baja was $600/hour, a few years ago. Can't imagine the rates now!
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A real leave no trace option, unless you crash and burn. Very interesting..
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RFClark
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My Instrument Flight Instructor was one of the Santa Monica mountains canyon flyers! He also looped a Cessna 150 with me in it! Do you need to ask how
that turned out? The canyon flying!
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LancairDriver
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Looped a Cessna 150? Lucky you didn’t tear the wings off of it. Actually Cessna did build 150’s certified for aerobatics so maybe that was one of
those. It’s pretty hard to get a 150 up to enough speed to pull it over the top of a loop and stalling out inverted for even more excitement.
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RFClark
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No, this was the original 150 not the late aerobatic model! If you have never taken your hood off and looked up at Santa Monica Bay you just haven't
lived! The secret was don’t pull any Gs and don’t fly with people who do that!
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LancairDriver
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Looking out during a loop for the first time is an exciting experience. But you need to pull some g’s to do it. Here is what the AOPA has to say
about it.
To do a loop.
3.5 Gs
The sweet spot for the pull is typically about 3.5 Gs. Pull harder and you induce unwanted, energy-killing drag, as well as greater stress on the
airframe. Pull too lightly and you may run out of airspeed before making it over the top.
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