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silverwings
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An interesting video that I saw on the Oz report. http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1659795420
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1, NextGen Tug design?

2. Damn! Can you imagine the ground-safety hazard problems of a human-sized version?
Walking into a prop is one thing; getting sucked into a jet engine is another. But dang, falling across that puppy would be like playing hide n seek in the wheat field with the thresher coming through!
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I wonder what the flight characteristics are if you lost the engine. May not be suitable for human flight, or very expensive if made so.

Cool Idea though. Thanks for the post.
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