(via Jay Lake's link salad which you might also want to check his link to What the Duck as well) Oooo, almost a jet pack. Okay, well, he cheats by jumping from a plane and then engaging the jet, and finally "lands" by parachute (instead of taking off and landing by almost VTOL and running a lot). But still cool.
Just imagine (okay, well, it's my imagination, YMMV) using this as a part of a HALO drop? Hell, no air space penetration needed. Drop the package out in international waters and the paratrooper jets in to their target drop zone. Cool. I expect to see this in a future James Bond movie. Really, just too cool not to use. I'm having visions of a whole platoon flying through hostile airspace for deep insertion (forget about the submarine drop).
And I'll bet Tobias just re-imagined the opening chapter to Sly Mongoose (although I don't think this configuration would survive insertion, but a swept wing version might).
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