Paramotoring with balloons?

1. 2018-01-11 at 3:51 AM UTC

   #1
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   If you tied a bunch of balloons to yourself, just enough that your not being lifted, could you use the motor from a paramotor to fly around with the balloons? Or even something else like a drone/fire extinguisher/compressed air tank?
2. 2018-01-11 at 5:23 AM UTC

   #2
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   A paramotor derives it's lift from the forward motion and the shape of the parachute/aerochute/whatever. Also the accident rate from paragliding is insane.
   
   Directing trust downwards in order to ascend would be unstable, but it'd probably work if you had some sort of other arrangement of propellers.
   
   Using compressed air as a method of propulsion simply isn't efficient, as the thrust to mass ratio is so poor.
3. 2018-01-11 at 10 AM UTC

   #3
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Just get an ultralight aircraft or a powered paraglider
   
   I think I'm gonna get a powered paraglider and one of those automatic airsoft guns and rain down plastic balls upon unsuspecting children below
   
   This is gonna be the best summer ever
4. 2018-01-11 at 10:12 AM UTC

   #4
   

   I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly Yung Blood
   I actually am usually flying my ultralight while posting here
5. 2018-01-12 at 1:08 AM UTC

   #5
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly I actually am usually flying my ultralight while posting here

   
   
6. 2018-01-13 at 2:19 AM UTC

   #6
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Needledick_Needledick_Needledick

   
   This is so GTA5 lol.
   
   Why don't we have mini subs you can order online yet? I mean in theory it's easy using GPS/GLONASS + thermocline propulsion.
   
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