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Iceaxe · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 7758 Location: Local Bordello

Sweet... I've been waiting over 40 years for this bad boy to hit the market. I'm going to hurry down and buy me some silver v-neck sweaters to wear while flying around... :2thumbs:

Personal flying jet packs

FUTURISTIC jet packs could be sold to the masses as early as next year, with a company already taking orders for "personal flying machines".

Jet Pack International in the US is planning to release a $226,060 jet pack next year which could travel 16km without refuelling, the Fortune Small Business magazine reported.

Pre-orders for the T-73 Turbine Jet Pack were being taken by the company, who would also teach buyers how to fly them.

Company chief executive Troy Widgery told the magazine that the joy of flying should not just be experienced by stuntman.

“We are developing a consumer model… our dream is to make this affordable to the average person,” Mr Widgery said.

“Everyone wants things to evolve to the point of The Jetsons, and I think it could.

“I could see (consumers) flying from work to home, within a certain limit.”

JPI engineer John Hewatt said the consumer model would be easier to fly than the stunt models.

“We’ve come up with the turbine version, which is more user friendly and safer to fly,” Mr Hewatt said.

Sombeech · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 11846 Location: The Rubbish Bin

awesome.

LOAH · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 543 Location: Oh Remm Yoo Tahh

Sign me up. :2thumbs:

savanna3313 · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:01 am Post subject:

Guess we'll be seeing "Super Dell" (Schanze) flying around in this next while buzzing the interstate. He'll be able to get up even more close and personal with this device. :lol8:

jumar · Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 1607 Location: Lehi, UT

savanna3313 wrote: Guess we'll be seeing "Super Dell" (Schanze) flying around in this next while buzzing the interstate. He'll be able to get up even more close and personal with this device. :lol8:
:roflol: :roflol:

accadacca · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 7405 Location: On Your Screen

jumar wrote: savanna3313 wrote: Guess we'll be seeing "Super Dell" (Schanze) flying around in this next while buzzing the interstate. He'll be able to get up even more close and personal with this device. :lol8:
:roflol: :roflol:
Yuppers! :lol8: :lol8: :lol8:

Jaxx · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 1656

this would solve to problem of "soil degradation" while hiking. Just strap on your jetpack and see what mother nature has to offer without getting your expensive loafers dirty.

Richard Barron · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Byng, OK, USA

People, please. Inventors and/or snake oil salesmen have promised these since the 1950s. Never gonna happen.

Iceaxe · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 7758 Location: Local Bordello

Richard Barron wrote: People, please. Inventors and/or snake oil salesmen have promised these since the 1950s. Never gonna happen.

We'll just see who is laughing when I fly over your house while wearing my jet pack and peeing.... :lol8:

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sparker1 · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject:

Iceaxe wrote: Richard Barron wrote: People, please. Inventors and/or snake oil salesmen have promised these since the 1950s. Never gonna happen.

We'll just see who is laughing when I fly over your house while wearing my jet pack and peeing.... :lol8:

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With a couple extra beers, you could probably pee on his house without a jet pack.

Bad Karma · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 62 Location: Next to my computer

Let’s compromise – Richard can stay at home and drink his beer and the rest of us can all fly over to Super Dell’s place and piss on his house.

JP · Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 4678 Location: Shelton, CT.

I don't think Al Gore will give that thing a Green Stamp approval :lol8:

DiscGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 3470 Location: Orem, Utah

wow. That looks awesome! I wish it were 255 times less expensive.

Gutpiler_Utahn · Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 281 Location: Orem, UT

Hate to say it Barron, but I think you're wrong. Most of the technology available today has been labeled as impossible even during recent history. Let's look at cars... A couple companies are coming out with cars that run SOLELY on water. Not something people would have believed possible just even a couple years ago. Computer processors are so far advanced that almost any severly outdated processor completes more cycles in a single second than the human heart could ever hope to beat in its lifetime. And that not even all... Right now, people are excited about 2, 4, 8 core processors. Most people don't know that Intel already has an 80 core processor that they are playing with and are considering putting in the next Xbox... 80. Sorry... getting off topic, but the point is to never say never. It may not be soon in coming, but I have every confidence that one of these days, somebody will figure it out and it WILL be available to people. :soapbox:

Richard Barron · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Byng, OK, USA

As a pilot, I can say with some confidence that the problem isn't one of technology, but of crowding the skies with untrained idiots moving at high speeds, carrying fuel on their backs. The FAA is still in charge of the skies, and there is no way they are going to let this happen. Too dangerous.