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Martin Jetpack: How Much Would You Pay to Be a Real Life Test Pilot?

An eBay auction (ending in 10-hours) offers the chance to be part of the Jetpack’s first public test pilot program. You’ll need to have a driver’s license, be over 18, under 198lbs…oh, and have a spare $35,000 lying around. Holy crap. Considering the thing will cost about $100,000 when it goes on sale, that’s pretty…

$2500 Homemade Jetpack Will Either Get You Laid or Kill You

Looking to live fast and quite possibly die young? Got $2500 burning a hole in your pocket? Do I have a potentially badass obituary for you! Updated. This homemade jetpack is being sold by some dude in Canada via a classified ad. How reputable! Jet Pack — Jumps You 10′ in the Air Handcrafted by…

JetBike Concept: Speed Racer Wannabe or Futuristic Fire Fighter?

Without a description to be found, these photos leave us guessing what the purpose of this futuristic jetpack/bike is. But even if we never find the answer, this concept is still incredible to look at. [Behance via LikeCool]

I Dream of Jetpacks: Mac Montandon Bears All

Click to view Love Boba Fett? ‘Course you do. So does Mac Montandon, who recently published a detailed report of his quest to find the jetpack of his dreams. Montandon, a freelance writer from Brooklyn, decided after living thirty-five jetpackless years that enough was enough and pulled out all the stops to travel across America…

Jetpack Inventor Answers the Hard Questions (and One Fun One)

There’s more than a little skepticism surrounding the new Martin Jetpack. Promising a new era of ultralight flight, many of the claims (altitude capabilities and safety, especially) sound too good to be true. Before we took our test flight, we asked Glenn Martin, inventor, some of the tougher questions that we hadn’t seen asked anywhere…

Hands On: Jetpack!

“Don’t cover your ears, this is what you paid to see!” Glenn Martin shouts to me over the apocalyptic roar of an F22 fighter jet performing a leisurely flyby. He’d abruptly broken off a conversation with someone else just to make this point-before we’d even been introduced and hours before I flew his pack. “That’s…

How It Feels to Fly a Jetpack

I flip the ignition switch and 250 pounds of engines, turbines and gasoline roar hello. In terms of horsepower, I was carrying a small sports car on my back. I’d like to say that I grin confidently and give the cameras a wink, like some young Chuck Yeager or Evel Knievel, but the smile leaves…

Rocketeer Might Be Re-Rocketing Into Theaters

Billy Campbell wants to bring the Rocketeer back to the audiences who didn’t turn out in droves to see the original in the 1991 adaptation of Dave Steven’s graphic novel. If you have time to check this out on DVD or the Disney Channel (where it seems to turn up every other day), then you’ll…

Minority Report Jetpack Designer Gets Sexy With It

Now this is one police officer we wouldn’t mind pulling over for, and that’s not even counting her dangerous curves. Check out the sweet streamlining and attention to detail on that jetpack. Plus she has what looks like Iron Man-esque propulsion units in her fingerless gloves, and a red and blue tipped light-helmet to boot.…

All Giz Wants: A Jetpack That Costs $200

We don’t ask for much here at Gizmodo, but what we really, really want is a jetpack that costs $200. Sure, we have brought you the deal with jetpacks before, but we want something that lasts longer than two minutes, (so do our girlfriends). Also, we would not mind a Jetsons-type transportation mode that costs…

Jetpack with a 10 Mile Range Available Soon for $226,000

Jetpacks, the invention we’ve all been waiting to become a reality for as long as we can remember (along with flying cars and teleporters), are pretty much a reality at this point. While a few months ago the only two commercially available jetpacks had paltry flying times of about 30 seconds, Jet Pack International is…

JetPack Uses Water, Not Fire, To Kill You In a JetPacking Accident

Instead of using flames and jet propulsion, as jetpacks are known to do, Raymond Li’s invention uses water to fling you up into the air. His patent hasn’t (as far as we know) been constructed yet. But it looks dangerous. The patent says that instead of using risky propellers, rotor blades and rocket exhaust systems…

Here’s a video of last weekends Rocketbelt convention in Niagara Falls, amazingly no one blew up.[Google Video]

Power Macintosh Ad: Fighting Spacemen (1994)

Continuing our series of ads from the 1994 Power Macintosh campaign, this one involves fighting spacemen of the (paleo)future. See also: Power Macintosh Ad: This Future Belongs to the Past (1994) Jet Packs and Macs (1994)

Jetpack Convention

Phil Torrone, the Maker of Makers reports on a gathering of jetpack aficionados, which can only be called a wet dream sort of Chuck Yeager and Jetson geeks everywhere. There were several working rocket belts in attendance, and I can say with no reservation that I would gladly cut off a pinky toe for the…

Gryphon Single-Man Flying Wing

At first we thought this was a joke—didn’t Batman have a pair of wings like this? But no, this Gryphon Single-Man Flying Wing is a parachute system whose 4.9-foot Delta wing has two jet engines on board that can carry a paratrooper 110 miles on a half gallon of jet fuel. The device will be…