¶ Jet Stilts: Jet Stilting
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Jet Stilts: Jet Stilting:
"… Running on the water like a duck. You’ve seen a duck taking off the water or landing: it’s like a hammerthrower or a pole vaulter: Jet stilting…
“An omnimedium vehicle could be propelled by twin-angled jet stilts. Omnimedium twin-jet orientable stilts. It could have a turbine jet effect with liquid oxygen for jet propulsion and with wheels. The stilts would converge just above your head. Like stilt walking, when you move the stilt forward it becomes the third compression member which is always initiatale. You’d be hanging from the vectors which converge above your head. A tetrahedron.”
“At one stage we had what Burgess called the ‘flying bedstead’: he thought it could work at low altitude, just above the water with JATO and ram-jets. The ideal would be to put humans in harness with jet stilts.”
29 Jan’75
¶ Citations
- Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (1)(2), (4)
