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For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would actually be safe and cheap enough to be used in real life. Think George Jetson flying around in the skies in the sixties cartoon. Another great image of the jet pack from our youth is Lee Majors flying around in The Fall Guy. Many of us have been waiting for the freedom of just flying at will, with the little jet propelled box on our back.
We were promised that everyone would have this type of technology by now but it has never really manifested. The good news is that it actually has because the New Zealand Martin Aircraft Company has actually invented something called the Martin Jetpack that really does attach to your body and jet propel you over long distances. The invention is the consequence of the Martin Aircraft Company taking the jets off of a plane and strapping them to a male subject. If this sound a bit clunky and wieldy, why it is – however it does work as a machine that can help transport a person through the air from one place to another.
The futuristic jetpack invented by this company. is made from carbon fiber, with a touch of kevlar in the rotors. It has 600 pounds of thrust which means it is quite a powerful little flying machine.
It was developed so that the center balance point of the thrust is self righting. This means that if the pilot lets go of the steering wheel he will hover steadily in just one place in the air. One of the problems with a lot of human jet pack designs has been that people fall over and crash the minute they let go of the steering wheel. Hovering has been a hard thing to accomplish with this type of technology.
It is not powered by plutonomium or kryptonite or anything exotic. It runs on ordinary gasoline. If you feed it five gallons of gas you will hover around in the air for about a half an hour.
Martin’s jetpack is classed as an ultralight aircraft, so you don’t need a pilot’s license fly it. However you do need ninety grand to buy it so this type of technology does not come cheap.
There are some safety features, though. If the engine dies, a parachute pops out like an airbag in a car, so the only thing you need worry about is crashing into other objects flying around in the sky.

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