First commercial jetpack will sell for $100,000, make your dreams of flying come true

Today in Tech/YahooNews ^ | 9/9/11 | Taylor Hatmaker

[Kartographer]

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 flight. By design, the jetsetter along for the ride won't be able to exceed 63 miles per hour, with a flight time limited to 30 minutes.

[Kartographer]

If you've got a taste for danger and some extra change laying around, why not?

[WOBBLY BOB]

COOL! I’ll just call it “deficit neutral” and put it on my plastic.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This should make for a whole new hilarious season of “Most Shocking Videos”.

[Kartographer]

63 mph and 30 minutes of flying time, a 10-12 mile comute could be reduce to 15 to 20 minutes.

[Buckeye McFrog]

By design, the jetsetter along for the ride won't be able to exceed 63 miles per hour, with a flight time limited to 30 minutes.

So the Search and Recovery teams won't have to stretch their efforts beyond a 31 1/2 mile radius.

[RitchieAprile]

does it have a holder for the beer?

[Lady Lucky]

Looks more like a toilet for Siamese twins.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Curb feelers. so you don’t scuff the paint.

[Kartographer]

Comes with one of these

[NormsRevenge]

Zero to Splat in No Time at all.. I like the little small jet paks ,, this looks like a amusement park ride seat with fins

[the invisib1e hand]

[HarleyD]

Do they make a solar version and does it come in green?

[SkyDancer]

I remember this one scene in the movie “The Rocketeer” where the rocket pack was tested on a tether. Yep.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Looks like something you'd see at a Texas Chili Cook-off filled with endangered species meat and Lone Star beer...and tequila...and peppers ...lots of habanero peppers.

[Kartographer]

"Do they make a solar version and does it come in green?"

I don't thinks so, but they are working on one that runs on naturally produced bio-gas, the owner has to eat a lot of beans though. ;-)

[NCC-1701]

I’ve got a birthday coming up. I’m putting in my order for one of those babies.

[BubbaJunebug]

Get your motor running
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way.........

[Sybeck1]

Don’t fly over Orange Mound. They might cap you.

[Oztrich Boy]

Stupid Jetpack Hitler had the Himmelstürmer first

[CodeToad]

Make that 60 minutes and throw in a parachute and I might have to buy one of those! If I could cut my 25 mile commute to flying overhead and landing at work, I’d just have to do it.