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Someone said there were three different fail safes built into it if both engines go out for any reason.
So unless they are flying over an active volcano...
When they're hitting the market at 75k? Doubt it.
Some rich people maybe but thinking these are going to become commonplace is a bit of a stretch. Also multiple failsafes. Also people are probably going to pay much closer attention to their fuel levels than they do in, say, their cars for obvious reasons
Sign me up.
Human stupidity, drunk jetpacking.
I want to get one and drop things on people.
Wonder when they'll be hiring them out for test flights.
wait for jetpack jousting
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
Fly-by shootings!
Seriously, if you get one of these, you should probably hide it
BRB, filing my patent for a Jetpack version of The Club
That's a pretty good reason.
Now all we need is FTL travel and we'll be kings of the universe, pelting aliens with water balloons from on high.
I guess you have that kind of money if you can afford one anyway.
In all fairness, it's six miles nonstop as the crow flies.
News and press: Vague allusions to funding from an unnamed government
Links: Empty
Videos: One video of it lifting up a handful of feet in a warehouse
I'm sceptical.
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums.
They are. The first person paying for a ride was a stripper, with the club owner forking out for the publicity.
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how much is this option?
Ahh right. Corrected.
Although being the only person in town who owns a jetpack would be pretty suspicious.
Edit: God, I'm envisioning jetpacking off the roof of my building and landing on the roof of my work every day and it's making me absolutely giddy.
Sure it'll be mostly a couple rich assholes who buy one to add to their menagerie of unnecessary vehicles. Probably one in every color.
We're most likely to see a demonstration personally when companies start holding them as a PR thing or when some shrewd entrepreneur buys one and starts charging $50 a ride. And this is only the first step. Eventually they're going to start making enough money so someone is going to want to buy them out and start improving the model.
Well either that or they're just going to be really expensive Segways and become more of a joke than anything else.
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Haha we love to claim new zealand's shit as our own. Until something goes wrong.
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"It WILL fly!"
Seriously, we made it this far into the thread without a single mention of The Rocketeer? FOR SHAME.
Oh yeah, and that jetpack thing? AWESOME. How awesome?
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Flak cannons.
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I envision you getting caught in power lines and me stealing your jet pack and washing your charred corpse off it in my garage.
Probably the same way they do right now with ultralights and personal planes. It would be unreasonably difficult to track you across the sky, and determine your landing point where they could then ticket/arrest you.
Why are New Zealand horses some of the fastest in the world?
did someone say kiwi?
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I can picture the tirade Scrooge McDuck is about to go on...
To pee on filthy commoners as you soar majestically over them in your badass super expensive jetpack?