For anyone who has ever dreamed of a speeding around the skies in a jet pack, NASA has proposed a solution. As reported by the NY Times, the space agency recently announced conceptual design plans for the Puffin, a personal flying suit that could take the world of aviation by storm.
Mark D. Moore is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Moore recently introduced the contraption at the Jan. 20 meeting of the American Helicopter Society in San Francisco. The design, which looks rather like a personalized glider, would be 12 feet in length, with a total wingspan of 14 and a half feet. It would be a single-passenger carbon-fiber construction weighing 300 pounds empty, and it would travel at a speed of 150 miles per hour.
(everything about this is awesome.. everything)
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