A man flew 1,500 feet over a 1,000 foot deep gorge yesterday in 21 seconds…IN A JET-PACK.  I’m going to repeat that, to let it sink in.  A man flew 1,500 feet over a 1,000 foot deep gorge yesterday in 21 seconds.  In a jet-pack.

Eric Scott is a former stuntman who decided, hey, I’m going to see what I can do with this jet-pack, and I’m pretty sure I don’t need any sort of backup plan.  He said before the flight:

‘There is no parachute. There is no safety net. There is no air bag. But there is 800 horsepower on my back.’

Well, I take that back.  There was something of a backup plan.  Kind of.

Scott’s backup plan was to kill the gas and save any remaining fuel for a final burst as he neared something he could grab onto on the cliff above the Arkansas River.

Of course.  Now, the article says the jet-pack “wobbles” at 60 miles per hour. And, of course, Scott’s flight had to be at 75 miles per hour to get all the way across the chasm.  I would not have done, basically, anything that Eric Scott did yesterday.  May have gotten out of bed.  That’s probably where the overlap ends.

I imagine the jet-pack is not necessarily the most environmentally-conscious form of transportation.  Perhaps you, along with Eric Scott, http://www.carbonfootprint.com/ and calculate your carbon footprint and find ways to reduce emissions.