Jet packs! Get your jet packs here!

[Beerman1963]

Did’nt Mythbusters build one of these? I recall it did not get off the ground.
They did just use plans they bought from the internet though

[Ranchoth]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Ahem.

'fly with U.S.' poster by strongstuff on DeviantArt

I see you, and raise. :eek:

[RalfCoder]

@Ranchoth

Bah, the problem with the real world is that it has no style. Really, how many of us would be lucky to meet our end dropping out of the sky with a canister of shrieking turbine death strapped to our backs, compared to what’ll probably await us?

OOH!! PICK ME!!! PICK ME!!!

Well… in about 40 more years, though…

And I have this image of swooping in out of a clear blue sky, hovering over the apron of the local Shell station, and setting it down next to the full service island. I step out, and ask the kid to fill it with premium, as I step smartly off to the bathroom.

[Regallag_The_Axe]

@Ranchoth

Hear, hear. Now this is a Jet Pack…none of that hydrogen-peroxide rocket nonsense, either. An honest to God turbojet, with a theoretical 25-minute endurance.

Pfff, that’s nothing. Now this, this is a real jetpack.

[beo.thuck]

A jet pack dude blasts over a canyon in 2008 for CBS news. (Video)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4630575n&tag=related;photovideo

[RalfCoder]

Here’s a variation that might be considered an also-ran. But I bet it’s a darn sight cheaper than some of those other models. The fine print probably says “Large body of water not included”, of course.

[Alienhand]

@RalfCoder

Here’s a variation that might be considered an also-ran. But I bet it’s a darn sight cheaper than some of those other models. The fine print probably says “Large body of water not included”, of course.

Thread from last year. Sadly, while strapped to a Jetlev I think the likelihood of dieing in a plummeting shrieking fireball flinging metal shards the entire way down seems distant.