Author’s Note: Electric Jet Revisited

Just a brief update on the state of ChoCho’s Electric Jet Project and its relation to the blur of fact and fiction:

I went to see Iron Man 2 recently, and there is a reference to an electric jet engine. Apparently it is Elon Musk of Tesla Motors who has the line. I thought this was awesome enough to interrupt our usual story, if only to say this is way too cool for words. I was so shocked when watching the movie that I had to go online to confirm it, and found autobloggreen showing the same reference.

As I have been known to dabble in this, and am currently working on designs for a stripped down version of the electric jet in ChoCho’s Notes, one that can be made on the shoestring budget of a writer, needless to say I am quite excited. (Of course I am working on a scale model, and still trying to get the parts together for the prototype. My porch is only four by fifteen feet, after all, so the jet engine I want to work with would be impossible to house. That and the neighbors have a cat. This is important because cats and jet engines, generally, are not good friends.)