Jul 29 2008$100,000 Jetpack Coming Next Year?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

That is all.

Great - let me know when there's a version for $100 that doesn't take gas.

Did Mythbusters build this thing a while back?

i'll buy one, as long as it comes with Nazi insurance. yeah, that's a Rocketeer reference for ya.

Yes, Mythbusters did try to build one of these but they were unsucessful due to the plans they found from the internet.

I'm sure Adam and Jamie could build one from scratch though.

Booo....wouldn't exactly be fun to fly around with two people making sure you don't tip over the whole time. The one man helicopter was better than this thing and it didn't make any false claims like "jet" pack.

im not going broke AND deaf just so i can float around 5ft off the ground. i mean ill do one or the other. but you make that thing go 6ft and we got a deal.

I think the blue guys is already dead

Boba Fett mod ftw!

its not him its those guys with their magic hands

The guy thinks it's going to fly for 30 minutes and reach 8000 feet because it's a piston engine, so it's like any other aircraft. He's either painfully stupid, or a boldfaced liar.

I wanna see a remake of this one, like the robotic bigdog!

does it come with two dudes who follow you around like little school girls? that in itself is worth the price.

Most people can't function well in 2-D travel. I certainly don't want them engaging in 3-D travel.

This will be a theme park ride at best... personal lift devices will never come to fruition...

Yves Rossy can fly circles around this kiwi/lunk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-66AcTo9TU.

I find jetpacks cool when someone has the confidence in one to fly up over a building or over a busy interstate or something. Two guys keeping you from falling 4 feet to the ground is not exactly what I'd call exciting. Did the Wright Brothers have two dudes making sure they didn't hurt themselves? Didn't think so.

OK, right through my teenage years I dreamed of jetpacks, of an eccentric inventor who would enable me to fly, if not to the moon, then at least into the next suburb or onto the roof of whatever girl I was in love with that week.

And now it turns out this man lived just down the road from me the whole time. Glenn and Vanessa used to come into a video shop I worked in all the time. Hell, I probably rented him The Rocketeer for all I know.

To those blathering on about Mythbusters - read the article, in particular the Franklin quote.

He made it in his garage. Over years and years and freaking years. According to local media he used to put 20 bucks a week into developing it. I can tell you for certain - this isn't some rich guy. This a dude in crappy sneakers who drives a falling apart car and has a gaggle of kids hounding him over whether they're allowed Spy Kids or Monsters Inc.

I am buying him a beer when I next see him. Hell, I'm carrying him into the pub on my shoulders.

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I'm waiting for the accidents to happen. I really am.

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When you carry him on your shoulders, be sure you swoop him around like he's flying. Because it's the most realistic flying he's ever going to do.

This thing apparently has about the same directional control capability as a helium balloon. Perhaps the inventor could achieve greater altitude by training giraffes to hold on to the machine with their mouths as they walk it around in 'patterns' and 'figure eights'. Just a tad impractical, though I like the idea of tweaking the animal rights people and the environ-mental cases at one go.

One drawback (apart from the obvious one of what happens if you are more than 12 inches off the ground when power is lost for any reason) is the vacuum chamber helmet one must wear in order to preserve 10% of one's hearing post-flight. Of course, that makes breathing rather difficult, but I am sure that bug will be worked out before sales start.

Does the inventor have any idea how many pages of warnings and disclaimers the owner's manual will have to have, or is he simply planning on applying 100% of the proceeds from sales to his product liability defense fund.

I think one could achieve most of the experience of this thing much more cheaply (and safely) by being hauled around on the shoulders of two guys with leaf blowers strapped to the sides of one's head.

I'd buy one when I see it do a loop de loop...

New Zealanders rule!!!!! Word.

Yea.... Big whoop..... how come no one pays any attention to the Moller Sky car? Everyone thinks this jet pack is cool and stuff but they dont know that a real flying car is out there and being tested even as we speak

http://www.moller.com/

http://www.moller.com/m400.htm

and here is the actual hover test for this car

http://www.moller.com/videos.htm#

check it out for yourselves.

This is bringing the back pack idea to the for front so many more garage inventor will try out their idea.

the jet packs of the sixties,seventies,eighties and nineties are more viable than this new one. its too big for the human imagination. unlike the pilots of these devices from the past who really flew these devices solo, this new innovative guy is a failed example of traditional feats of couraged which have been demostrated american test pilots. advice to these rocket scientist: get a camera, go to the park, set your device up, strap yourself in, press a button and fly it with controlled percision around the park then land it gracefully and do it alone. after accomplishing the above demostration you will become admired and adored by the women. your legacy begins.

I actually got the chance to see it fly at EAA's AirVenture. The person flying it was Glen Martin's son who's 16, however it didnt go further than oh 5 or 6 feet off the ground.

The competing thrust lines of two engines and a pilot who appears to have never surfed or used a pgo stick makes for poor stability and flight control. Seems a simple and inexpensive heading lock gyro or simple human-controlled yaw, roll and pitch about a better CG point could offer promise. I would want a ballistic chute just in case.

this is soo freakin' awesome...why train to be a pilot when you can buy a jetpack!!!!

Very unstable... get the geniuses at NASA to write you a self-stabelising feature and your in business! Or, just borrow it from the Eurofighter.