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I flipped the fuel switch to full choke; pressed the red
button marked START, on the harness on my chest and
heard a sound remarkably like a gigantic, uncontrolled fart
erupt from behind me.
"IT WORKS!" I cried aloud, as the engine settled down to a
steady, throbbing roar.
My PS/T was ready
for either enforcing social distancing,
with its two sets of counter-rotating, whirring blades
creating two vivid orange circle around me, at waist height
and at knee height.
I pulled up gently on the collective control, rising above
the earthbound crowd and gave the cyclic control a nudge,
noting that I moved forward slowly.
I would get the hang of this thing, even if it killed me.
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I was expecting something a little more ballistic & (only-just)
sub-orbital, or better yet, super-orbital. |
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[Disappointed expression] |
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//heard a sound remarkably like a gigantic, uncontrolled fart erupt from behind me.// |
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Widely known to exist, not a new idea, etc. etc. |
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Oh sorry was there more to the idea? I'll read it again |
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It sounds like a sort of helicopter. I thought [8th] was dead
against helicopters (or, as he might put it, alive because
against helicopters). |
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You are correct. However, we want to know more about these whirring blades, and how sharp they are. It's entirely possible to leave them so they don't generate lift. |
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From the description, the blades encircle the wearers' waist, like a bizarre, lethal metallic tutu. |
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It could permit the development of a spectacular, though short-lived*, form of ballet... |
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We should be leaving more space between annotations now.
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*For the [other] performers? |
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No, it should resemble a ring of outward-pointed katana blades. Scimitars would be acceptable, if aerodynamically necessary, but for the pure look of the thing, katanas would be best. |
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Oh, and we spurn this "social distancing" thing as irrelevant and useless <Cough, cough, cough, splutter, wheeze/> |
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