Too heavy for the chute?

Don't think so considering he uses the chute, with the wing on, after a normal flight. Maybe the chute wouldn't work and the gear was too heavy for his back-up chute, though.

Possible. I jumped with over a hundred pounds of gear before. Aerodynamically it looks like he would be more streamlined with the chute on his back vs. the front. Smaller chute, less weight, bag the wings and it would only have to support him. I don't know but it makes sense.

If you look at the pictures. it looks like the fairing on the front of the jet-pack contains the post flight chute?

Ah, maybe it wouldn't fire and the fuel made it too heavy.... with no way to jettison fuel like a plane can.





Orrrrrrr, he couldn't handle the extra weight of the monkey and Goat?

He couldn't handle the extra weight of the guilt on his conscience, knowing that the monkey and the goat were photoshopped.

No, I'm wrong. The chute forms like a fairing at the front of the notch in the middle of the wing. Definitely not part of the wing.