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The most surreal conversation in the skies in recent years takes place at 6:35 pm on Sunday, August 30 at the Los Angeles airport. Control tower, here American Airlines flight 1997, we passed a guy with a jet backpack, announces the captain of the Airbus A321 that had left Philadelphia more than five hours earlier. On your right or left? Asks – not very convinced – the controller from the ground. On the left, perhaps 275 meters from us, at our altitude (915 meters, ed), responds the pilot in the audio recorded by fans of LiveAtc. Not even time to forward the note to the upper floors and here thirty seconds later another commander intervenes, also landing: We just spotted the guy, they announce from JetBlue Flight 23 from New York. Only in Los Angeles do these things happen, we hear from the control tower.
Without precedents
Close to airports, we have seen a bit of everything in recent times. Drones, sound balloons, various models, raptors that circulate to scare off the flocks. But the flying men, worse still: men with miniature rockets attached to their bodies, were missing. The only similar close-up with a plane on November 2015 in Dubai, far from the city and as part of an exhibition, between two jetmen (with a carbon fiber wing) and an Airbus A380, a double-decker.
The investigations
If this is fun and intriguing, also thanks to some literature and film, it actually worries airlines, airports and those who manage flight safety so much that they investigate the FBI and the FAA, the US federal aviation body. The fluttering individual. It is one of the frontiers of mobility (in addition to a dream of humanity) and it could also be said to be coronavirus-proof: moving by air from one point of the city to another avoiding traffic, optimizing times and reducing stress. In parallel, we work on flying cars or taxis and drones for passenger transport.
Characteristics
But the rocket backpack, a technology not certified for civil use, often fails, is not officially for sale to individuals and with certain features requires at least a flight license. Not only. In case of a problem, it can become a bomb. When working, the device, which is carried on the back, equipped with two or four jet propellants, allows a person to climb up to 4,600 meters and advance at speeds of almost 200 kilometers per hour for eight to ten minutes at most, as Explain the characteristics of the Jb-10 and Jb-11 models of the Los Angeles-based company JetPack Aviation, which has denied any involvement for the last two days. We honestly don’t know who is working on such a plane and is reckless enough to fly near planes, he says. New York Times company founder, David Mayman.
The dangers
Experts warn that one of the main risks is that the man in the jet pack collides with the plane or, worse, is sucked into one of the engines, destroying it and putting the safety of those on board at risk. In JetPack Aviation they claim to be the only ones in the world authorized to carry out the three-week training, not for recreational use and strictly in a controlled space, away -as required for drones- from people, buildings, airports. The mystery continues. And it could be the first and greatest human persecution. Steering wheel.
September 2, 2020 (change September 3, 2020 | 10:37)
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