Flying To McDonald's On My Paramotor
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a vivid example of personal flight that needs no airport, often in threads on drones and aviation regulation.
What it is
A vlog in which Tucker Gott flies a paramotor to a McDonald's for lunch, showing everyday powered paraglider flying.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2018 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites dreamcompiler · 2018-09 · on “Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wild West”
Powered paragliders look like fun. You can fly from your backyard to McDonald's for lunch and fly back. [this video]
Cites kragen · 2022-01 · on “Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza”
"Antiquity" is conventionally considered to end about 1500 years ago, though this really only applies to Europe: [LINK] The reason for this is the very sparse historical record from the European Dark Ages. Scholars in the High Middle Ages like Petrarch could look back on their own recent history, and then a vast gap of mostly unknown, and then the impressive cultures of Antiquity among whose ruins they lived. We know more about the Dark Ages now than we did then but still not that much. Here you can see people flying like birds without being canned in metal tubes: [this video] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] It seems likely that we have changed. I suspect Merer's workers, even if they had grown up in modern
Cites sbierwagen · 2023-10 · on “Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a Field”
The Wright Flyer massed 274 kg. Of course it could take off from an unprepared field-- with a modern engine, it could be doing nine foot takeoffs like in STOL competitions: [LINK] The modern equivalent to a Wright plane would be something like a paramotor: [this video]