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Old July 30th 08, 01:11 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Oshkosh: Kiwi launches $130,000 jetpack: Up, up and away


"GillesK" wrote in message
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Dave Doe wrote:

Hi, I'm from Christchurch, and I'd like to know if any folk at Oshkosh
might be able to post some video or pics of this guy "doing his thing"
tomorrow.


I bet he'll be relieved : "Mr Martin, 48, told the New York Times he had
spent 227 years developing [...]"
:-)


Probably has something to do with the exchange rate between NZ years and US
years. ?!? Kinda like "dog-years", etc...
Maybe not. (shrug)

TP