is the flyboard air real?

hoax or real?

a company was trying to make some crazy mini turbine one but not sure if they did.

I mean, they already sell small turbine engines for rc airplanes. I don’t see why you couldn’t bolt a couple to a board and fly. Not sure what kind of power they have but those jets fucking move.

https://youtu.be/KPtsLPMTVnY

Based on the video showing seemigly accurate heat wave distortion under the board, I say it’s 100% real.

I was skeptical until I saw he’s got an official Guinness World Record with it.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/4/confirmed-franky-zapata-sets-new-farthest-hoverboard-flight-record-in-france-427011

Guinness isn’t in the business of certifying hoaxes.

nobody has a cell phone video of this. all we have are two pro-edit ones. the Guinness thing gives credibility, but something like this should have made bigger headlines and been used in movies or on TV shows…

the thrust and fuel burn rate etc also don’t add up

You’re also a rocket scientist in your free time?

you don’t need to be, you just look at the best drones and jetpacks and their size and then compare to this.

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This is by far my biggest issue. How can you have a 4+ minute flight of something that sounds like a small jet taking off, flying over a populated lake, and there are no cell videos of it?

I still can’t get past the fact that Guinness certified it though. I even looked up the girl in the Guinness article (Sofia Greenacre) I posted and she is an official Guinness rep.

^ That’s some serious CGI if all that is faked. But at the same time how do you fly around that long, in front of that many people, and there aren’t literally 1000’s of cell phone videos of it?

So 1000HP run for 5 mins from a backpack full of kerosene? Why not run your drag car with this setup, think of the weight savings.

Do you guys all suck at the internet? That was 1min of looking on youtube

https://youtu.be/WJZ9dtTJ12I

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Do you know the burn rate of Jet A1 fuel? Fuel consumption for jet fuel?

he didn’t put “air” and flyboard is for the normal product so this didn’t come up easily.

that is a pretty compelling video. maybe this is possible. I only know trivial burn numbers for larger things like how a jet can burn 100-200lbs of Jet A in 30 seconds at high thrust. This whole package might only be 250-300lbs with fuel and passenger

Obvious answer… David Blaine… duh!

I was trying to find data for those model jet engines but no such luck.

Like these? http://www.jetcatusa.com/rc-turbines/turbine-details/p200-sx/

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Didn’t some say 320lbs of thrust somewhere on those sites? This makes around 50lbs per motor

6 x P220-RXi Turbine Engine, 52 lbs Thrust, by JetCat, from JetCat, jc-p220-rxi

Uses 725ml a minute at full throttle which is 1.1 gallon a minute for 6…1 gallon is 6-7lbs?

Not saying those videos are legit or not but you can get the math close based on what they’re claiming

so like 1.5 lbs/min x 6 = 9lbs of fuel

anyway here it is, this is definitely possible:

"

  • If some miniature J8 jet engines can produce 34 pounds (147 N) of thrust, is it possible that four of them can lift a 120-pound (54 kg) person off the ground and allow him to fly?
    - question from D-Per

At first glance, the answer would be yes, but taking further considerations into account, we have to temper that to a big maybe. Here’s the crux of the problem. You are correct in your reasoning that the amount of lift force needed to fly is directly related to weight. So if we were to consider a 75,000 lb (34,000 kg) aircraft flying at 33,000 ft (10,000 m), it would need 75,000 lb of lift to remain flying at that altitude. Any more lift and the plane would climb to a higher altitude, any less and it would descend. But for our “personal flyer” example, we are still on the ground. If we exert exactly 120 lb of lift on our 120 lb pilot, he won’t move. Obviously, we need more lift, and conveniently enough, the engines you mention produce 34 lb of thrust each for a total of 136 lb (605 N). Therefore, four of these engines should be able to lift our plucky pilot off the ground. "

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0093.shtml

They claimed 320lbs of thrust…I just posted above motors and the fuel consumption rates to do it or at least 300lbs.

My point was in your previous post you were worried about jet fuel consumption numbers.

yeah… I hit the same conclusion about the same time.

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Its a hoax and campaign. Easy video reviews show frames that don’t belong there and if this was really out there, Twitter would blow up with other shoot of someone flying around.

Then explain Guinness certifying their flight? That’s Guinness’s entire brand… certifying that something is a legal world record. The minute they start going along with hoax videos they cease to exist as a company.