misunderestimation

Jet packs; a device you can put on your back that allows you to fly, are simply the coolest thing going. We’ve all fantasized about strapping a jet pack on to fly to work or just to get away. Well, Eric Scott decided to take his jet pack and fly over the Royal Gorge:

It’s 1,500 feet across from cliff to cliff, and more than 1,000 chilling feet down to the bottom of the Royal Gorge on the Arkansas River near Canon City, Colo.

“You’re going to see me on the other side. This isn’t an ‘Evel-Knievel, get-a-lot-of-media-out-and-just-screw-it-up’ gig, you know,” stuntman Eric Scott told CBS station KCNC-TV correspondent Rick Sallinger prior to the flight.
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With spectators watching heart in hand, Scott ascended–and 21 seconds of suspense later–was back standing on terra firma, on the other side of the gorge.

“Concrete never felt so good,” he said.

Too cool. Here is video from the flight:

For another perspective, here is TV coverage of the event:

Here is more video from an earlier attempt to fly into the gorge and return to the launch sight. What’s cool here is, you get to see what he sees from the helmet cam. That is a long way down.

Time to buy one of these babies!

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