The Martin Jetpack
RandomEngy
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Glenn Martin, from New Zealand, has invented a jetpack.
You may have read about other jetpacks. They have enough fuel for about 26 seconds of flight, need special fuel and are very difficult to fly.
What's special about this one? It can run for 30 minutes, with a range of 30 miles, goes up to 60 mph and up to 8000 feet. It runs on a 5 gallon tank of premium gasoline. It's stable enough that people can quickly learn to fly it. It can carry a 240 lb person. When mass production is started, it will cost around $75,000. And it falls within the FAA Part 103 Ultralight regulations. Which means you don't need a pilot's license to fly it.
This won't be the kind of thing you fly to work (the range, MPG and restrictions on flying it over neighborhoods and populated areas and such), but would be a recreational vehicle similar to a jetski that you might take out to the country and fly around.
I have not really seen a huge "catch" so far about it. Is the future finally arriving?
You may have read about other jetpacks. They have enough fuel for about 26 seconds of flight, need special fuel and are very difficult to fly.
What's special about this one? It can run for 30 minutes, with a range of 30 miles, goes up to 60 mph and up to 8000 feet. It runs on a 5 gallon tank of premium gasoline. It's stable enough that people can quickly learn to fly it. It can carry a 240 lb person. When mass production is started, it will cost around $75,000. And it falls within the FAA Part 103 Ultralight regulations. Which means you don't need a pilot's license to fly it.
This won't be the kind of thing you fly to work (the range, MPG and restrictions on flying it over neighborhoods and populated areas and such), but would be a recreational vehicle similar to a jetski that you might take out to the country and fly around.
I have not really seen a huge "catch" so far about it. Is the future finally arriving?
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i am without words
when we get to this point, sign me up.
I don't know if I'd have the balls to try one, but it does sound very appealing.
Edit: Also, how long until somebody mods it with big ass laser canons?
This could totally work.
OOOH JETPACK!
And even then, the psychological impact of going from Malfunction => car crashes to Malfunction=> Fall 150 feet would still be a pretty big deal. They should package it with some sort of small, fast, lightweight parachute.
Edit: ...and the big ass laser canons, of course.
Actually, I believe they do package it with a parachute that deploys automatically if both engines stop or something like that.
.....1 done, 1 to go!
They do. It has like three failsafes built in or smething.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
that is, if I had any money in my jetpack fund
and if I thought I could actually you know, fly it anywhere within fifty miles
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
i want my body to go horizontal so i can be like superman
Fuck, we could pacify the shit out of Afghanistan if we had bears with jetpacks and sniper rifles patrolling the skies.
No, seriously. Them there's ducted fans. Also it's not what even the most diehard campers or soldiers would consider a pack.
The big catch is that it's going to be loud as all fuck. Not as loud as a genuine jetpack probably would be, but still really shockingly goddamn loud. I wouldn't want to operate it in a parking lot where people weren't routinely wearing ear protection.
are you kidding? A jet pack? In columbus? The fucking army would have every gun in the world tracked on you like you were osama bin laden.
Are you actually being snobbish about a motherfucking jetpack?
I fully expect to see a few of these flying around Black Rock a year or two after they hit the market.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
They have a page just for you.
People will die like flies when these things reach the market.
I'm laughing so hard at this right now.