Check this out: This uber-talented young pilot/inventor from Santa Cruz, Calif. fits a propeller powered by a 50 cc motor on his back and uses a radio control car hand-held device to operate his system as he flys down a snowy road on a pair of skis. Samm Sheperd looks as though he’s a fairly gifted engineer: he’s a drone pilot, airplane pilot, outdoorsman and inventor who seemingly lives to tinker with anything and everything made by the hands of man.
This California Pilot Invented a Propeller Pack to Ski With
And it works.
BY The Inertia Mountain | Staff

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