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Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Comment Without increasing rotational speed & seek tim (Score 1) 383

Now although this will be welcome news to a lot of people looking to pack more into less, for me it doesn't do any good. If you fill one of these drives with data (eg. photos) it is going to take a long time to do anything with it. Unless more is done to increase the rotational speed and thus increasing seek times it is not going to deliver a whole lot more.

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