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#4315637 - 11/27/16 05:05 PM Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France...  
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#4315638 - 11/27/16 05:10 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing!


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#4315642 - 11/27/16 05:14 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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#4315658 - 11/27/16 06:14 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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#4315674 - 11/27/16 07:45 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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Nice, thanks for posting that!


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#4315708 - 11/27/16 11:57 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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#4315729 - 11/28/16 03:05 AM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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Ok, so how fast can those puppies actually go? I know the planes were making slow wide turns, but still.

#4315731 - 11/28/16 03:22 AM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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I am sure those planes were close to stall speeds and those with guys with jet powered
wings were at full power. Could tell with the rag doll movements their bodies were making
from all the turbulence knocking them around. Looked rather dangerous if just one of them
were to loose control. Would not be pretty.


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#4315749 - 11/28/16 06:36 AM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: JimK]  
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Originally Posted By: JimK
I am sure those planes were close to stall speeds and those with guys with jet powered
wings were at full power. Could tell with the rag doll movements their bodies were making
from all the turbulence knocking them around. Looked rather dangerous if just one of them
were to loose control. Would not be pretty.

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#4315782 - 11/28/16 11:01 AM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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I'm actually amazed at the amount of red tape these guys must have sorted trough. Just to get a backseat ride is more luck than a lottery win. For civilians to fly an experimental gadget in formation with the P.d.F., complete with the risk of getting sucked into the intakes... they sure are capable on a very professional level and had quite a few things to prove before this happened.

#4315929 - 11/28/16 07:34 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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Cool Video -- thanks for sharing it.

Regarding speeds: If you look at the Alpha Jets, you'll see they have flaps deployed, so they're slow, but distinctly above stall speed, given their gear is still up... Typically, their stall speed (off the top of my head) is probably in the vicinity of 90-95 knots (~105-110 mph).

So, with gear up, I'd expect they're probably using a "safe" 1.2 - 1.3 * Vso, so call it 110-120 knots or so (~130-140 mph), so that's what I'd expect Jetman and his wingies are going... (All ballpark, of course), but probably close enough for "government work" -- given that they're flying with the Patrouille de France. copter


Again, cool video!


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PS> I think the guy in the orange pants is either pretty new (relatively speaking), or pretty nervous -- he seems to be doing quite a bit of "over-correcting", compared to Rossy (the guy in the yellow pants) who looks rock solid. I can imagine that it's pretty tricky flying those wings so I don't want to sound like I'm knocking that gentleman, but watching him made me a little bit nervous for the guys in the planes.

#4316139 - 11/29/16 02:48 PM Re: Kind of formation flying between Jetpacks and Patrouille de France... [Re: kaa]  
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I'm confused. I don't know if I should envy the Alpha pilots or the jetpack dudes.

I'll just envy both. biggrin


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