Amazing Video: Martin Jetpack Flies for Seven Minutes, Setting New Flight Record

I'm sorry but that is not a jet pack , at lease not my childhood dream of a jet pack.

Very cool.

"the stones"?
I guess Popular Science's "Middle-school Outreach Program for Gifted Writers" program net them something.

@gunsarecool You're right, it isn't a jet pack, but believe it or not, actual jet packs have existed before, it's just that the fuel gets guzzled up so fast that it'll only last for like 2 minutes. Not the normal time you'd fly in something of the type.

Navy1270: You are probably referring to the jetpacks that use pressurized nitrogen to push hydrogen peroxide through a silver catalyst,which produces a blast of super-heated steam.It only can carry enough peroxide for a 2 or 3 minute flight.I do recall a story,in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics from years ago, which talked about a jetpack similar to this one that used small, high thrust to weight ratio jet engines.One reason it wasn't produced was that the engine manufacturer's output was devoted to producing powerplants for cruise missiles.

I love the ripples in the tall grass below the jet pack when it gets low to the ground; it gives you a sense to how powerful that thing really is...

Just imagine a morning commute in one of these...and the inevitable trafic jam in the sky :)

Search YT videos on "1984 Olympic Jet Pack"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs&feature=fvsr

Add to cart.

Jetpacks was yes!

I am curious to know what Martin sees this being used for... Other than pure awesomeness.

If only the movie Kick Ass used this at the ending of the movie , It would have been more believable ....

this one very cool machine hope the general public can use this , talk about fast warm pizza deliveries ,

so difficult to comment, just to say something stupid like "fake, you can see the strings" but SPAM has really decreased, so it's good. it would take a highly motivated troll to get through all the Captcha's & stuff.

I wouldn't buy it if the Space cops can just remote-control fly me to do an aerial traffic violation, such as running an aerial stop sign (which better never be invented.) I would really like to have the 'Martin DuctPak' ducted-fan-pack or whatever you want to call the 'headcopter', to fly to work to ensure that I don't get stuck in traffic, pulled over for speeding, runnning stop signs, etc.. or delayed by ground-based vehicular accidents. As long as they are expensive, and require higher brain function as a requirement for your flyer's license, the skies will be uncrowded, and your chances of survival would be much higher than driving a conventional vehicle on the streets of say: Memphis, TN, which has confusing roads and confused drivers. maybe there was a cloud of hippie acid in the air at the time, but i swear i saw a character from Planet of the Apes driving there, or maybe it was bigfoot. maybe i didn't get a clear view, but it definitely looked like a Wookiee. I thought Wookiees were fictional beings until that fateful afternoon, and ever since, The Force has been strong with me.. Still need that Lightsaber crystal though.

Both Martin (Jet Pack) and Yves Rossy “Jetman” have a system for personal flying. Both have their weaknesses. Jetman needs a way to lift off from the ground besides jumping from a plane. Jetman needs more efficient, effective propulsion to provide take-off and landing. Martin’s system needs a means of stable forward flight. Martin system needs wings for horizontal flight and range. I suggest combining wings with a propeller system to make, in effect, a personal Osprey. [Think of it as the Marine Corps’ Osprey but for one person.]