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Video shows the astonishing moment Royal Navy members flew over the New York Harbour using jet packs and landed on the Queen Elizabeth warship. The servicemen are seen hovering over the Harbour as they head towards the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest and most powerful vessel of all time. Footage shows the military members smiling as they soar over the Atlantic Ocean with their helmet-steered weapon mount and tactical suits waving the Union Jack flag as passengers on other ships seemingly stare in awe.

"A Boeing 747 pilot reported seeing an object that might have resembled a jet pack 15 miles east of LAX at 5,000ft altitude," the Federal Aviation Administration told CBS. "Out of an abundance of caution, air traffic controllers alerted other pilots in the vicinity." The FAA has not yet responded to a request for further comment from The Sun. A man in similar garb and get-up was spotted nearly a year ago just miles from the airport. Video captured from the event shows the "jet pack guy" flying through the air, at that time, only 3,000ft in the air.

On-lookers were left wondering what was going onThree Cliffs Bay is one of the most breath-taking on Gower. But visitors couldn’t help but be distracted from it’s striking panorama on Thursday, January 21 - by a man flying over the bay in a jet pack. Looking like something from a movie, it is believed to be a commercial in the making. The company behind the project, Gramafilm, said it would reveal the story behind the project next month. But a spokesman for the National Trust, responsible for Three Cliffs Bay, said: “The National Trust Film Office had given permission for...

Months after the first sighting of the jet pack guy over Southern California, we get new insights into the official investigation into the incidents. ohn Greenewald, a vigorous filer of Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests and author, who runs the website The Black Vault, received the documents through the FOIA process and generously shared them with The War Zone. You can read the documents in their entirety over at The Black Vault ...the Chief Test Pilot at Jetpack Aviation, based in Van Nuys, California, who was skeptical of the reported sighting. "He confirmed that they have not flown for...

Earlier this year, several pilots reported seeing a "guy in a jetpack" in the airspace above Los Angeles International Airport on two separate occasions. Now, another pilot says she spotted what appears to show someone flying a jetpack. And this time, the sighting was caught in a jaw-dropping video. Brandy Fogelman, a flight instructor at Sling Pilot Academy, recorded the video last week during an instructional flight with a student.

Those sightings occurred Aug. 30. The case took another twist Wednesday when a China Airlines pilot approaching LAX reported seeing a jet pack flying at an altitude of 6,000 feet. That’s more than a mile up “To fly up to 6,000 feet from the ground, to fly around long enough to be seen by China Airlines and then to descend again, you’d be out of fuel,” he said. Instead, he suggests a more likely scenario, an electric drone — perhaps with a mannequin attached. the strongest evidence that the LAX sightings is a person with a jet pack — as...

A man flying in a jet pack has been spotted for the second time in two months hovering thousands of feet above the ground near Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said Wednesday. A man flying in a jet pack has been spotted for the second time in two months hovering thousands of feet above the ground near Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said Wednesday. In September, the flight crew of an American Airlines flight saw a man in a jet pack hovering about 3,000 feet above the ground near the airport, according to CNN

"We've wanted them since seeing 007 in Thunderball. Is Glenn Martin's jetpack finally the answer?....Maybe things are (heh, heh) looking up. A New Zealander named Glenn Martin — .. no relation to the other aviation pioneer named Glenn Martin — has been working for years on his own version of the jet pack. His version solves some of the problems.[ watch the second video : 1:30 min] First of all, instead of using real rockets, this uses two ducted fans driven by a gasoline engine. This is not as inherently cool as a rocket, but it means that you can...

If scoring a seat onboard an airship doesn't seem to be in your immediate future, why not consider a jetpack? We've seen jetpack stunts and world record attempts before, but the notion of actually buying one for private, sky-legal use probably seemed like science fiction. But hold your skepticism: the first commercial jetpack is slated to go on sale as soon as next year. The Martin Jetpack is scheduled to go on sale in 2012, and the current price tag is set at a lofty $100,000. Amazingly, it's actually legal: It will meet the FAA's strict standards for ultralight aircraft...

Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy has already flown his homemade jet-propelled wingsuit over the Swiss Alps and across the English Channel. Now the real-life Iron Man is hoping to soar through the Grand Canyon. Rossy, 51, plans to jump from a helicopter near Eagle Point early Friday and fly westward along the canyon's rim, his team said Wednesday.

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...

It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become common place, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us. But the future is here! Finally we can all take flight as Martin Aircraft in New Zealand releases the first commercially-available jet pack!

UPDATE:Flying cars and robot maids may still be far from reality, but one Jetsons-era vision of the future is very real: the jetpack. After nearly 30 years in development, New Zealand's Martin Aircraft Company is finally gearing up to sell its jetpack: two rockets driven by a 2-liter, 200-horsepower engine that can theoretically take you as high as 8,000 feet. The company is currently taking commercial orders, but Martin expects it will be selling the devices to individuals late this year. With a range of 31 miles and a maximum speed of 63 miles per hour, you'll be able to...

It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become common place, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us. But the future is here! Finally we can all take flight as Martin Aircraft in New Zealand releases the first commercially-available jet pack! A bit of history... Like many science fiction concepts, the jetpack design has become firmly entrenched in the collective psyche: ask anyone to draw you a jetpack and they will give you a man with two fiery pods strapped to his back...

During the Motorfair Auto Show in UK which took place this month at the Knockhill Racing Circuit in Scotland, Go Fast! Jet Pack pilot Eric Scott set the world record for the fastest jet pack flight ever attempted. This month, at the Motorfair auto show that took place at the Knockhill Racing Circuit in Scotland, 46-year old Go Fast! Jet Pack pilot Eric Scott attempted to set the world record for the world's fastest jet pack run. The man from Denver had already become the first jet-propelled man to cross the 1,053 ft. wide Royal Gorge Canyon in his home...

A German entrepreneur, Hermann Ramke, has invented a James Bond-like jetpack powered by high-pressure water, called the JetLev-Flyer. Designer Ramke's invention can power the rider to a height of 50 feet (15m), has a top speed of 30mph, and can travel almost 200 miles before it needs to be refuelled. A floating pump powered by a 150 horsepower four-stroke engine sends water through a 140ft-long (43m) hose to a pair of nozzles mounted on the jet pack. The jet leaving the nozzles is sufficiently powerful to push the rider off the ground. The nozzles can then be angled to propel...

Here are the training videos released by JetLev for its incredible water-propelled jet-pack. We posted the original jet-pack video on 2/3/2009 (here).Thought you guys might enjoy this follow-up.

Thought this video was quite interesting...

New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin publically debuted his 'Martin Jet Pack' Tuesday at AirVenture, the world's biggest air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Martin strapped his 16-year-old son into the pack and he hovered above the ground for a cheering crowd. Martin invented the 'Jet Pack' 11 years ago in his garage. It consists of a 200 horsepower water-cooled piston engine that runs on gas and uses car fanbelts to drive two fan propellers that spin inside what looks like two oversized soup cans. Martin say the fan design is much more efficient than an unshielded rotor of a helicopter....

To some extent, everyone's in the market for a jet pack. But since Bell Labs built the first rocket belt (the correct, if less exciting, name) in 1953, potential buyers have been stymied by two problems: Rocket belts aren't for sale, and even prototypes run on modern-day fuel (as opposed to whatever the Jetsons use) — which means rocket belts can weigh upwards of 100 pounds, with only enough fuel to stay aloft for under a minute. Now, a pair of companies have solved one of these problems — rocket belts are for sale.