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L.A.’s Mystery ‘Jetpack’ Allegedly Captured on Video, But We Still Have Questions

A pilot in Southern California has captured video of what appears to be a person flying a jetpack, the first visual evidence of an unexplained flying object that seems similar to a reported jetpack sighting near the Los Angeles airport in August. But we still have a lot of questions about what we’re seeing in…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 28

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man

Holy hell, that is fast. The gravity-defying maniacs over at Jetman Dubai achieved a major company milestone on Friday. In a company first, one of their pilots executed a successful ground-level take-off that transitioned into a high altitude flight. All previous take-offs had been from elevated platforms, i.e. helicopters and the like. This time around,…

Sploid Alyse Stanley Feb 17

Flyboard Inventor Fails to Cross the English Channel, Falls Into Water

Daredevil inventor Franky Zapata failed to cross the English Channel today on his flyboard after taking off from Sangatte, France. Zapata traveled only halfway across the 22-mile waterway before he ran into trouble at his refueling point and went tumbling into the water. He was wearing a lifejacket and reportedly didn’t suffer any major injuries.…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 25

French Inventor Totes Rifle While Flying Turbine-Powered Flyboard at Bastille Day Celebrations

European leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron were treated to a demonstration of the Flyboard Air, a sort of gas turbine-powered jetpack/hoverboard/flying platform originally invented by jetski champ Franky Zapata, during Bastille Day festivities in Paris on Sunday. Zapata carried what certainly appeared to be an unloaded rifle (or a replica of such) as he…

Gadgets Tom McKay Jul 14

Watch Daredevils With Jetpacks Fly Next to People Standing on Top of Airplanes

If you’re going to be flying in the air with a jetpack attached to your back, you might as well do it with folks who have strapped themselves standing to the wings of an airplane. Why not, right? One, because they’re probably the only people crazy enough to fly with you like that. And two,…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 29

Jet Pack International Executive Crashes Mid-Flight

The vice president of Jet Pack International, Nick Macomber, was hospitalized following a crash in Denver, Colorado according to SFGate. Macomber was flying a hydrogen peroxide-fueled jet pack during a test flight near the Denver Energy drink company. He lost control of the back pack and fell 20 feet, landing on his head. “The guy…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Apr 10

Flying jetmen stunningly soar all over Dubai in amazing video

Watch as Jetman Yves Rossy and his protege, Jetman Vince Reffet, take their crazy jetpacks to the skies of Dubai and tour the city like Superman would. It’s unbelievable every time I see them soar through the air like fighter jets, busting moves and tricks that only stunt planes dare to try. Except they’re not…

Sploid Casey Chan May 11

Man Who Claimed to Be The Inventor of the Jetpack Dies

Justin Capra, a Romanian inventor who claimed to have invented the first functional jetpack, died on Monday at the age of 81. Capra used to say that he built his jetpack in 1956, well before Bell Aerosystems’ 1961 untethered flights with their rocket belt. The only problem? He was never able to produce any credible…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 21

What a real flying human jet looks like

Our favorite flying human Yves ‘Jetman’ Rossy is up to his old tricks again of making us all feel like tiny little life wasters. This time, he took a majestic flying tour around Mt. Fuji in his quad rocket-powered jetpack that can go as fast as 185mph. Just look at him zoom across the sky…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 6

Human test flights begin on extraordinary jetpack, on sale in 2015

Remember how we all thrilled to see this test flight of the Martin jetpack a few years ago? It remained aloft, with a dummy in the driver’s seat, for over 7 minutes. Now humans are going to start testing this jetpack, which the manufacturer says could be on the market as early as 2015. According…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 14

Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 07 – The Flying Suit

This is the seventh in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The seventh episode of “The Jetsons” premiered on American television November 4, 1962, and was titled “The Flying Suit.” In this episode we’re introduced to Mr. Cogswell (we don’t learn until the 1980s…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 5

Verizon’s 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment

Beginning May 1st Verizon will offer a new prepaid version of its Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi 4510L with three different prepaid plans. For $15, you’ll get 250 MB of data a week. For $60 you’ll get a monthly allotment of 3 GB, and for $90 you’ll get 10 GB of data. Additionally, starting…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 30

There Is Such a Thing as Jet Pack School Where People Learn to Fly

Eric Scott aka Rocketman is probably the best Jet Pack pilot the world has. He’s flown over canyons, performed in airshows and holds the record for fastest speed on a Jet Pack. So with that gift, he’s now teaching people how to fly in his Jet Pack school. Using a jetpack isn’t easy! You can’t…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 3

Don’t Crash Your Jetpack into the Ocean on Live TV

Things were looking so good for John! He was at the beautiful San Diego Yacht Club—on TV! He had a million dollar smile. He had an awesome aqua-jetpack. Then he smashed the anchor and careened into the water. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong here. Was it just morning nerves? Mechanical failure? Perhaps…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 15

Jetpack Mailmen (1958)

I had to buy stamps recently. It was the worst. Nothing pushes me into full curmudgeon hack mode quite like standing in line at the post office. We’re talking Andy Rooney/ Dave Barry lovechild super-curmudgeon. And don’t even get me started on FedEx. Standing in line is so 20th century. That being said, there’s something…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 17

Swiss Maniac Leaps from Helicopter and Jetpacks Across the Grand Canyon at 190 MPH

Well! Here’s something that will make you feel like a tremendous coward. Not only is flight enthusiast “Jetman” Yves Rossy unafraid to strap on a giant winged jetpack, he flew across the Grand Canyon with it. Very, very quickly. https://gizmodo.com/jet-pack-guy-crosses-english-channel-5055208 The stunt came in multiple stages—first off, a reasonable hop out of a chopper, 8,000…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 10

Here’s the jetpack you could use to fight the space bugs tomorrow

There’s something charmingly low-tech about this jetpack test, from the makers of the Martin Jetpack, which features a remote-controlled jetpack zooming around for several minutes while carrying a dummy. Say the jetpack makers: James flies the Martin Jetpack by radio control. This is part of a flight that lasted more than 7 minutes, a record…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 5

PBR Jetpack Ad (1976)

In 1976 Pabst Blue Ribbon ran this TV ad of a man flying effortlessly with a jetpack.* Though the man we see at the end who takes off his helmet is just an actor, the man who actually flew in the ad was none other than William P. Suitor. You know how we’ll know when…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 1

What’s the View Like From Your $230,000 Jetpack, Sir?

The Jetlev-Flyer got a work-out at the weekend’s London Boat Show, where it powered across the Thames river at 35km/hr, and a height of 30m. Bet it made more than one chap drop his scone. [Daily Mail] https://gizmodo.com/water-powered-jetlev-jetpack-would-be-the-most-godly-fi-5141777

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 10

First Intercontinental Jetpack Flight Ends With a Wet Crash Landing

50-year-old Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy (known aliases: Fusionman and Jetman), was forced to abort his first attempt at a jetpack flight from Africa to Europe with a dive into the Mediterranean Sea. I guess the nicknames didn’t come with superpowers. Seems like jetpacks aren’t really the best option for longer distances. But then again, this…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Nov 25

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L.A.’s Mystery ‘Jetpack’ Allegedly Captured on Video, But We Still Have Questions

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man

Flyboard Inventor Fails to Cross the English Channel, Falls Into Water

French Inventor Totes Rifle While Flying Turbine-Powered Flyboard at Bastille Day Celebrations

Watch Daredevils With Jetpacks Fly Next to People Standing on Top of Airplanes

Jet Pack International Executive Crashes Mid-Flight

Flying jetmen stunningly soar all over Dubai in amazing video

Man Who Claimed to Be The Inventor of the Jetpack Dies

What a real flying human jet looks like

Human test flights begin on extraordinary jetpack, on sale in 2015

Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 07 – The Flying Suit

Verizon’s 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment

There Is Such a Thing as Jet Pack School Where People Learn to Fly

Don’t Crash Your Jetpack into the Ocean on Live TV

Jetpack Mailmen (1958)

Swiss Maniac Leaps from Helicopter and Jetpacks Across the Grand Canyon at 190 MPH

Here’s the jetpack you could use to fight the space bugs tomorrow

PBR Jetpack Ad (1976)

What’s the View Like From Your $230,000 Jetpack, Sir?

First Intercontinental Jetpack Flight Ends With a Wet Crash Landing

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