Jetpack going on sale for $100k next year
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After almost a lifetime of work, aviator and engineer Glenn Martin is ready to produce and sell an actual, personal jetpack.
But actually, it's not a jetpack per se. Actual jets would have the unfortunate side effect of burning you, so the "Martin Jetpack" might be better described as a hoverpack -- it uses twin turbines to generate 600lbs of thrust. It can fly for about 30 minutes before having to refuel (with gasoline.)
Made out of carbon fiber composites, the 500lb hoverpack has a 200 hp, 2 stroke engine designed by Mr. Martin himself. It has a range of 31.5 miles and top speed of 63 MPH. If you feel brave enough, you can hover at heights of up to 8000ft, but something like this will probably be used much closer to the ground.
You don't need any sort of aviation license to pilot this device, but you will need to complete a training course given by the Glenn Martin company beforehand, if you want to get flying. Built in the United States, each hoverpack will be selling for an even $100,000 USD.
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but it's too big, within 10 years this should be way smaller and i might buy it.
but they might start making it mandatory to have a license and such
That is all.
i would definitely save up for like 5 years to buy this!
If you run out of fuel and have to land somewhere.. do you just leave it there?! ha
With the help of that jet-pack, I or someone can rescue the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Su Kyi from the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon now!!!!!!!
If American citizens want to meet her in the future, they could use that jet-pack instead of swimming through the lake nearby her house.
Damn Burmese regime for detaining and charging her again!
Now i only need to know where do I steal them...
100k it's just too much to my tiny wallet
What garantees you that5 you won't just fall off when youre at 300ft??
Doesn't look like it has an parachute... and even if it has you kould get killed by falling at about 20 metres, and the parachute won't open
Wouldnt bet 100k just yet, wait till it get's refined
But, awesome find!
And, in the spirit of "If it exists, it's online." there's an actual online jetpack community - although they call them rocket belts. Wheee...
Cheers,
Adrian
But anyways I was right about the parachute. Productions models will have an emergency chute:
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Production versions of the Jetpack are equipped with a Ballistic Parachute system from Ballistic Recovery Systems. This enables the pilot to be saved from a catastrophic failure down to a reasonably low altitude. Ballistic parachutes can open at very low altitudes, particularly if the aircraft has some forward speed. For this reason the "flight profiles" will be calculated to have the lowest risk possible.
There will also be a bit of a roll cage as well.