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The postie who went off like a rocket
A British inventor has taken up the challenge to deliver a letter across open water through donning a jet engine-powered suit, 85 years after the idea of rocket post failed.
Richard Browning has followed in the footsteps of German entrepreneur Gerhard Zucker, who tried to send mail by rocket to the Isle of Wight, in 1934.
The distance from Hurst Castle in Lymington to Fort Albert in Freshwater is 1.3 km, and is the furthest Richard has ever flown.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 03 2019, @12:16AM (1 child)
Just use a V2 rocket!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @02:41AM
An Aerotech Consumer Aerospace powered rocket would make it that far if he had the license and airspace waivers.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 03 2019, @12:34AM
Its a bird, its a plane, its a fiery ball of death!
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @02:45AM (2 children)
Jail him just like gyrocopter guy [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 03 2019, @10:52AM
Oh, yeah, whatever happened to him? [usatoday.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Luke on Wednesday September 04 2019, @01:33AM
I think gyrocopter girl https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj-ivhpjeSj7Qpqi8MHF-RA [youtube.com] is _much_ more interesting!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:36AM (4 children)
has become cool again?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:47AM (3 children)
We all know you're the real Unabomber.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:56AM (2 children)
Undiebomber, you mean. I gave you wedgies in school, remember?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:10AM (1 child)
No, I mean you should confess and trade places with Kaczynski in prison.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:26AM
Neither you nor I are real math wizards, but let me try this. 1956 minus 1942 should equal something close to 14, amirite? When Theodore was busy becoming a real fuckwit, I was just a skinny little kid, finishing elementary school, and starting junior high school. When he actually got to work blowing people up, I was safely imprisoned aboard ship, out in the Atlantic, so the authorities would quickly disprove any such "confession" on my part.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Tuesday September 03 2019, @05:57AM
I mean in his Tour de France days, not when he took pride in dropping Mike Pence.