There are actually brave souls around the world who build and fly their own jetpacks, most notably Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot who created a flying wing powered by four small turbofan engines.
These let you bring your own audio into your set, trigger samples and build beats and jams on the fly -- much more suitable to a digital device such as this.
It would be akin to spending billions to research and build a new fighter jet and then realizing that we have no fuel to fly it.
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Sadoway thinks that could take a year to design, build, test, and make safe to fly.
The insistent electric guitar that had been quietly coloring the sound behind the tandem acoustics starts to build, and the other instruments drop back and let it fly.
Thirteen teams are competing to build a plane that can fly at least 100 miles per hour and achieve the equivalent energy efficiency of 200 miles per gallon of fuel on a 200-mile flight.
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Just imagine what all of us could do to build bridges between business and social entrepreneurs, highways for innovative ideas to fly faster, markets for philanthropic capital to reach impact more effectively, networks of change-makers learning and collaborating.
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Of course, there are those that posses some AI smarts, too, but Georgia Tech wants to take this to the next level, and build a 'bot that can interact with its environment on the fly.
On Tuesday, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially announced the private sector participants in its Transformer X project to build a Humvee that can take off, fly hundreds of miles, and land with little human input.
To enable that to happen we must have the courage to fly revolutionary ideas (propulsion and launch methods), not just build more of the old design concepts.
Clear and purposeful programmatic objectives and milestones must be established, including a decision now to build a useful prototype aircraft to fly by 1995.
It takes 18 hours to break down our current MH-53s, an additional 12 hours to build them up, and then a functional check flight before you know that it's safe to fly.
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