New flying...thing

[Phenix_Rider]

Inflatable boat/hovercraft/ultralight...

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/inflatable-flyi.php

[smileyman]

Sweet I want one!!

[Rangerscott]

She = hot.

[karl_1052]

Lock this thread.

The guy's a daredevil, though. Watch him pointing out the one piece of metal that holds the wings in place, calling it "the Jesus pin." Says the swaggering airman, "It breaks, and you see Jesus." Good lord.

[marko138]

Wild. But I wouldn't get in it.

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by marko138

Wild. But I wouldn't get in it.

I totally would.
Hell, I'd own one if I had someplace to operate it (besides a busy public lake) and didn't think it'd fall under some bizarre FAA ultralight regulation.

[Phenix_Rider]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

I totally would.
Hell, I'd own one if I had someplace to operate it (besides a busy public lake) and didn't think it'd fall under some bizarre FAA ultralight regulation.

Ultralight regs seem pretty loose. I agree on the busy public lake though. The lakes I know of are so crowded in the summer you could damn near walk across without getting wet. Either that, or they're so small and overhung you could never take off.

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Phenix_Rider

I agree on the busy public lake though. The lakes I know of are so crowded in the summer you could damn near walk across without getting wet. Either that, or they're so small and overhung you could never take off.

Lake Travis is a decent size, but yeah, it's WAY too crowded for something like that hoverflyer... especially with the water levels being down like they were this last year.

[Phenix_Rider]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

Lake Travis is a decent size, but yeah, it's WAY too crowded for something like that hoverflyer... especially with the water levels being down like they were this last year.

Two-three years ago, it was particularly scary around here. All the floating docks you see were completely dry. Levels were down 5+ feet and there was a LOT of bare ground below the tree line. Last year, water levels were up (only a foot or so below normal), so this year they should be up past normal if all this snow is any indication.

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Phenix_Rider

Two-three years ago, it was particularly scary around here. All the floating docks you see were completely dry. Levels were down 5+ feet and there was a LOT of bare ground below the tree line. Last year, water levels were up (only a foot or so below normal), so this year they should be up past normal if all this snow is any indication.

Last year, at the height of our drought (between Aug & Sept) the lake was at around 630ish ft, down 50ft from full pool of ~680ft
Driving by on one of the roads that overlook it, you could see more sandbars than water.

Sorry, off subject. Back to the hoverflyer

I was thinking, after my post yesterday, that I could launch from one of the parks on Lake Austin and fly it down the length of what is basically just the Colorado River. I'm imagining the faces of the people eating at Ski Shores cafe seeing someone fly by like that.
They'd probably have Homeland Security hunting me, thinking I was a terrorist out to destroy one of the dams or something.