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Martin Aircraft’s commercial jetpack looks to take flight
http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/436/martin-aircrafts-commercial-jetpack-looks-to-take-flight/ ^ | Ryan Fleming

Posted on 10/04/2010 8:08:25 AM PDT by ventanax5

It is about time man flew among the birds – alone. We may not have the homes on the moon, or the flying cars that our totally reasonable childhood imaginations ensured us would be waiting for us when we grew up, but with a little luck and a lot of money, we might soon be able to scratch “jetpack” off of our bucket lists.

Imagine one day soon, you kiss the spouse good bye, walk the kids off to the school bus, then you prepare for the commute to work. But rather than sitting in traffic and squeezing your steering wheel in frustration as the car in front of you apparently believes the old adage of “speed kills”, so they are driving 15 MPH under the speed limit, you simply throw on your jetpack, terrify a few birds, and make it to work in record time. Sure there might be a few details that you would need to work out, like the practicalities on your hygiene after ripping through the wind with an engine strapped to your back, or the fact that you are betting your life on the reliability of the vehicle, but we are talking about a jetpack- practicalities be damned!

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flying; jetpack; technology
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To: ventanax5

I take it we are talking VFR only, or IFR(I Follow Roads)


21 posted on 10/04/2010 8:41:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

If it crashes do you want to land on asphalt and get hit by a truck, or do you want to fall in trees, grass, or a pool?


22 posted on 10/04/2010 8:45:17 AM PDT by 1776 Reborn
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To: elcid1970
And just what if several hundred thousand of your fellow frustrated commuters strap on their own jet packs and “sky up” at the same time, headed for the same downtown destination? Multiple midair carnage on a horrific scale!

Actually with some sort of computer-managed flight control systems, combined with GPS guidance... it might make flying cars and personal jetpaks actually workable and safe (from a traffic point of view, anyway).

But then again... when I see what the seagulls do to my newly-washed car... it makes me glad that people can't fly.

:-)

23 posted on 10/04/2010 8:51:41 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: avg_freeper

Yah... but “ducted-fan-pack” just doesn’t sound right. :-)


24 posted on 10/04/2010 8:53:40 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: skeeter
I've been waiting since that afternoon in '62 in Tomorrowland.

I have been waiting since that Astrodome flight in 1965, at a Colts 45 game.

25 posted on 10/04/2010 9:24:39 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ventanax5

“...you simply throw on your jetpack, terrify a few birds, and make it to work in record time.”

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Absolutely terrific suicide bomber tool. No protection against it. The perfect jihadpack.


26 posted on 10/04/2010 9:24:58 AM PDT by 353FMG (ISLAM will end America's Constitution.)
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To: ventanax5

Put in a ballistic recovery chute and I’m in.


27 posted on 10/04/2010 10:01:07 AM PDT by pt17
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To: pt17

BRS is included.


28 posted on 10/05/2010 7:03:50 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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