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Test Flight: Your new JET PACK!
Unlike the 30 sec. flight time of the Bond-style jet pack, this fan powered unit can keep you aloft long enough to actually be a useful form of transportation. This prototype cost $100,000 to build, so you can imagine a commercial version could even be affordable.
Video after the jump. Unlike the 30 sec. flight time of the Bond-style jet pack, this fan powered unit can keep you aloft long enough to actually be a usefu... more -
Teenager Builds Jetpack!
A sixteen year old kid builds a jet pack powered almost entirely by water and tests it out in front of a crowd. CRAY CRAY!
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Inventor says jet packs ready to take off
T"his isn't how a jet pack is supposed to look, is it? Hollywood has envisioned jet packs as upside-down fire extinguishers strapped to people's backs. But Glenn Martin's invention is far more unwieldy — a 250-pound piano-sized contraption that people settle into rather than strap on.
As thousands looked on Tuesday, the inventor's 16-year-old son donned a helmet, fastened himself to a prototype Martin jet pack and revved the engine, which sounded like a motorcycle. Harrison Martin eased about three feet off the ground, the engine roaring with a whine so loud that some kids covered their ears.
With two spotters preventing the jet pack from drifting in a mild wind, the pilot hovered for 45 seconds and then set the device down as the audience applauded.
The Martin jet pack can — in theory — fly an average-sized pilot about 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full 5-gallon tank of gas. The apparatus was unveiled Tuesday at AirVenture Oshkosh 2008, the annual aviation convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association in east-central Wisconsin.
"Wow, that went better than expected," Glenn Martin said afterward, his accent revealing his New Zealand roots. "People will look back on this as a moment in history."" T"his isn't how a jet pack is supposed to look, is it? Hollywood has envisioned jet packs as upside-down fire extinguishers ... more -
Wachovia's Way2Save Program
What will you buy with all the money you are going to save? This guy bought a jet pack!
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Special thanks to Sean McNally for helping out with this video! What will you buy with all the money you are going to save? This guy bought a jet pack! Enjoy! ... more -
World's smallest jet
It's worn like a backpack and kind of makes you look like a flying squirrel. Which, honestly? Only makes me want it that much more. It's worn like a backpack and kind of makes you look like a flying squirrel. Which, honestly? Only makes me want it that much mor... more
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Go Fast Jet Pack
Its a bird, its a plane, it sure isnt Superman, but these guys are really flying. Go Fast Sports has created a jet pack that allows people to fly! Get a behind the scenes look at people that create and fly this contraption. Its a bird, its a plane, it sure isnt Superman, but these guys are really flying. Go Fast Sports has created a jet pack that allows... more
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Get your own JET PACK now!
According to Popular Mechanics, however, two companies are now trying to live up to the failed promises of science by making jet packs available to the public. Priced from 150,000 to 250,000.....totally affordable. Better than taking the MUNI. According to Popular Mechanics, however, two companies are now trying to live up to the failed promises of science by making jet packs... more
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Jet Packing
Watch this clip for some sweet jet packing moves.
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