No sleeping on THAT flight!

Is that the gear Jimmy used when he got a face-to-face with Jack Chick?

I want one of those, too!
Um . . . the wing thing & the tin foil hat.

No, do I need to put it on again?
I'll go find it.

Dj,
I think you haven't been wearing your tin foil hat lately, have you? :-)

You guys have no idea what you're talking about. We've had an been using the technology since the early 40's at least. Its only now comming out.
See..the aliens at Roswell gave them to us.
Alternatively, all you need is a big kid standing off in the distance to throw the soldier where you want him to go (my GI Joe's never survived a landing though...their chutes didn't open.)

They still land with parachutes. This is just an alternative to HALO drops. The SF jump at high altitude - 30 angels in airline lanes, and then have considerably more cross-range capabilities than with a traditional parachute, but not nearly the difficulty and fatigue of the para-wings they use today, then, at low altitude, they open their chutes.

How much are they and where can I get one? Way too cool.

What's a "wuffo"?
That's some one who stands on solid ground, looks up and asks, "Wuffo those guys jump out of a perfectly good airplane?"

It doesn't sound like there are any definite plans by the military to accept and use this new invention, as far as we know that is. Until that time I will remain skeptical. There were a lot of silly hovercrafts and I think jet packs that the military was very serious about in the past, but were complete flops. Until I learn more I am prepared to add this to the list.

Hm...so the US-Mexico border fence becomes obsolete even before it's constructed.

"That's not flying, it's falling with style."
- Woody

"To infinity and beyond!" - Buzz Lightyear

I want one...

The first tests, they probably gave them parachutes as well.

If you're crazy enough to join special forces, you're crazy enough to fly a strap-on glider.
I think a lot of those guys are already trained in using hang gliders and ultralights, though.

Project Icarus?

You can read another article on this, and see a picture of the back/top.
Here is the German press release from ESG.
The very nice demonstrations have no doubt taken place during realtively stable weather, with nice laminar air masses. Unfortunately, "real world" atmospheres are often irregular, turbulent and have problems like wind shear. Owie for batman.

I scouted around and discovered that that IS Jimmy wearing the battle wings! Here's a photo of him with the visor up. I guess the cowboy boots just weren't practical.
http://ruthannzaroff.com/Images/battle_wings-ja.jp...
'thann

How much does this have to do with Secret Project #4, Jimmy?

and how much did they have to pay the first "testers" when they took away their time-proven parachutes and said, "hey, strap this on and now jump from 40,000 ft!
talk about heroic virtue or else, again, no brains... (or no choice, "yes, sir")

"ESG claims the next stage of development will be fitting 'small turbo-jet drives' to the wings to extend range even further." Commando Cody lives!

Ha ha, I'm dying Father.
Those wings would be cool for the next Bond movie.

It's already been done:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/871/217/1600/Fl...