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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by sizzle on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:07AM (#24351070)
How heavy of a battery would you need to power these with enough electricity to lift an adult human, think like a drone on steroids...
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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by iso947 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:39AM (#24351503)
Lift for how long?

https://www.tmotoruavdrone.com/product-detail/48968207323300...

Looks like the motor you need. 25KW

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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by taneq on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:53AM (#24353209)
And you'd need four of those, I'd guess... so 100kW or so.
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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by trhway on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:24PM (#24356164)
with 57inch props - large beasts though so it would be a personal helicopter style suit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Jetpack) not true jetpack - it makes 94kg thrust at 23kw, so 2 of them is enough with 60kg/7kwh battery making for 9 minutes of hover (though full discharge is truly bad for the batteries).
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