Ratchet-Raptor
1 or 2 seater titanium/carbon-fibre hover-bird. Highly mobile and can fly fast. Can reach altitudes of 800 feet and has a cruising speed of 80mph. Battery lasts 3 hours in full flight mode. Deployable in 3 seconds. Packable in 5 seconds. When packed, it’s about the size of a golf ball. Dash usually has one in his back-pack. The first ever Ratchet-Raptor was test piloted by James Hogsbottom. On its maiden flight the navigation Nyeffy-Gimble was on the wrong setting (18 instead of 16) and he crashed into an osteop milking-shed on a neighbouring farm. Luckily he wasn’t injured in the crash, but there were over 200 osteops in the shed at the time, and they got such a fright that they began a stampede. It’s actually known in the history books as the Great Osteop Stampede of 2008. The osteops ran so far that a squadron of police triplocopters and triplo-triplocopters had to retrieve them individually. The farmer, a woman by the name of Jezebel-the-Magnificent, was initially going to sue Mr. Hogsbottom, but then she was interviewed on TV. She was so happy to have been on TV that she forgave him, and they are good friends to this day.
Ratchet Raptors are manufactured by Raptor Industries under license from G. & J. Tarrow Siblings Inc. (manufacturers of triplocopters).
First seen in Book 5, page 198
Research
e_ratchet_raptorIn the printed almanac pages (6 cited)
Straight from the books
Facts
object_fact (4)
The Ratchet-Raptor can reach altitudes of 800 feet, has a cruising speed of 80 mph, battery lasts 3 hours in full flight mode, and packs to the size of a golf ball.
Can reach altitudes of 800 feet and has a cruising speed of 80mph. Battery lasts 3 hours in full flight mode. Deployable in 3 seconds. Packable in 5 seconds. When packed, it's about the size of a golf ball. al1:c01:p250
Ratchet-raptors are manufactured by Raptor Industries under license from G. & J. Tarrow Siblings Inc.
Ratchet-raptors are manufactured by Raptor Industries under license from G. & J. Tarrow Siblings Inc. al1:c01:p251
The Ratchet-Raptor is a 1 or 2 seater hover-bird that is highly mobile and can fly fast.
1 or 2 seater hover-bird. Highly mobile and can fly fast. b05:c99:p233
The Ratchet-Raptor is deployable in 3 seconds and packable in 5 seconds; when packed it is about the size of a golf ball.
Deployable in 3 seconds. Packable in 5 seconds. When packed, it's about the size of a golf ball. b05:c99:p233
history (1)
The first ever Ratchet-Raptor was test piloted by James Hogsbottom; on its maiden flight the navigation nyeffy-gimble was on the wrong setting (18 instead of 16) and he crashed into an osteop shed, causing the Great Osteop Stampede of 2008.
The first ever Ratchet-raptor was test piloted by James Hogsbottom. On it's maiden flight the navigation nyeffy-gimble was on the wrong setting (18 instead of 16) and he crashed into an osteop shed on a neighbouring farm... It's actually known in the history books as the Great Osteop Stampede of 2008. b05:c99:p233
numeric_fact (1)
The Ratchet-Raptor can reach altitudes of 800 feet and has a cruising speed of 80mph; battery lasts 3 hours in full flight mode.
Can reach altitudes of 800 feet and has a cruising speed of 80mph. Battery last 3 hours in full flight mode. b05:c99:p233
Relationships
- invented_by G. & J. Tarrow Siblings Inc.
The founders, Gabriel & Jamie Tarrow, also invented the ratchet-raptors. al1:c01:p100
Incoming
I pulled my ratchet-raptor from my backpack, activated it, Mr. Rosebank jumped on, and up we flew. b05:c08:p198
Dash usually has one in his back-pack. b05:c99:p233