Personal Jet Pack Makes Debut at Air Show

[karimn97]

Imagine arriving at school in one of these!

[0909dk1]

one of starks?

[ATUHDKB3]

lol,what a shitty jetpack

it´s big as hell

nothing new and nothing to be proud of

[WarezFBI]

Dear Santa...

[ChristopherMarlowe]

We had better technology 30 years ago: watch?v=U-3Ql7G7qRc

[TheRhinehart86]

So are there actually people flying these around now? Can't say I've seen any.

[matthias2986]

30 mile range on 5 gallons, thats like 6mpg at best lol =( still cool and i guess if i had 100k to buy one i wouldnt be too worried bout gas prices... shit, i would fly that shit to work everyday!!

[OlDoinyo]

Too bad it costs more than many small airplanes--that will be a deterrent to purchase.

[MrNickmani]

My aunt already has one.

[DynaDuctINC]

Look up the army transportation corps experimental vehicles

[YappleDappleFilms]

GLEN MARTIN DDS!!!!!!

[deuceswild76]

too awkward and clumsy.

[jukio02]

@deuceswild76 ya

[B0rnToRoll]

"its a bird its a plane" How about you go fuck yourself I think everyone new wtf it was

[humongousaldo]

LAME

[TiGraffi]

xD

only the two guys on the side are carrying it the thing itself only creates loud noise

[sebinpsuresh]

To Get a Jetpack, Type "Rocketman" simply..

[Rayz95x]

@sebinpsuresh GTA , hahaha

[joshharrisjoshharris]

@sebinpsuresh too much gta

[tiprunner]

Not impressed :-(

[puppypuncher07]

why all i c is them holding it it can not fly!!

[LeviCarlton]

go to martin jetpack . com to see amazing videos of this

[honda125]

DID HE DIED..

[werotus]

It's not perfected yet... But give it maybe 20 years and it might actually be a valuable option when traveling

[justinmulli]

Can i has one?

[SuperKindle]

Maybe this should have a safe altitude sensor on public use models. Because there is only a 5 gallon tank. So like the lower the tank you have left the lower altitude it will recommended.

[spikeyy21]

0:01 to skip advertisement. 

[coup8585]

100,000 dollars for a jet pack !?!?!

[Churchx77]

Well durr, what would you ask for a fucking jetpack?

[rocknrollohio]

its like floating in mid air

[NBAGOATS]

You better keep all eyes on that gas meter. Run out of gas and you've literally run out of time. And don't get caught in a storm. All that cross drafted wind will literally give you a ride you'll never forget. Not like falling off a horse and getting back on folks. Horses don't gallop at 8,000 feet.

[Jsiff]

@NBAGOATS

Who's going to go 'jetpacking' without checking the weather...or the sky, even? Plus, it's not like everyone owns one.

[Jsiff]

@NBAGOATS

Very doubtful...especially if the whole 'electric car' business begins to thrive, which, it is beginning to. Also, they need an alternative fuel source to compete with the cars. Though I'm staying optimistic overall, I doubt it will become as mainstream as the developers had hoped...especially at a price of $100,000...when you can buy a reliable car for less than $15000.

[NBAGOATS]

@Jsiff yea but intro prices always start out higher than they end up. DVD players started out at 800usd. Now you can buy them for 25 bucks.

[notsuretwo]

Unfortunately this appears to be a ground effect machine. Maximum altitude about 5 feet. If you disagree, please post video of this machine flying at at higher altitude. I would love to be wrong about this.

[skrape110]

@notsuretwo

nah ur right man. and even more so. from what i hear he had nothing but problems at oshkosh and never actually did anything more than what you see here.

[thomasuras]

what a POS

[valvetrom]

as long they hang on to it or flying inside a hall, I won't believe it that its serious, go outside go up some 100s of feet.up and some miles along ,do a figure of 8 and come back, whats holding you back???

[worldwildwest]

Gee !! Can You Mow my Lawn with That ??

[greatonisionfan]

NO ITS AIRMAN BITCH AND IM BINGING THE PAIN...wait did she say glen martin...D...D..s?

[TheAceofNate]

maybe the guys on the side have super strength

[Soalreaper44]

It's ok... 

[xXstrightstonedXx]

Finally we can all stop bitchn about where r jetpacks r. We r finally in the future now ppl

[LegendKiller33388]

thats cool i'm going to be like one of the spartans on reach now with my cool Jetpack oh hell yeah

[4DM677]

@DjDirective yeah, enjoy riding your lawn mower around town while everyone else has jet packs.

[TheWhoppers0]

@4DM677 everyone else? shit, since you got 100 grand lying around go ahead and buy me one too :)

[4DM677]

@TheWhoppers0 Merry Christmas. :P

[exitwound]

Ya if this got big, and everyone used them for travel, we will see what happens when sum1 cuts me off, "oops, accidentally threw a pipe in ur blades, have a good fall! :)

[jamesdunkworth]

get your mom to send $90000 to the ad in the back of Boy's Life

[AgrivatedKillah]

everything has to be "broken in'

Cell phones and etc.I remember not to long ago my brother had a "pager" and that was the shit... and he had a "cd player" .. now you hardly see anyone with cd players or pagers.. it just takes a few years to get broken in

[ArBiTeR0000Tactical]

fuck that

[tejla3]

why not make jetpacks run on electricity

[Szederp]

Duke Nukem would be sooo proud!

[AMusicByAyberkCifter]

@Szederp and CJ too :D

[t4r0n]

When this hits the market, wait 10 years and everyone will have one - which will be even more efficient. Think of computers, cell phones and stuff, this could be the next great thing!

[theseanster7]

now attach a couple gattling guns to it and you have one kick ass personal craft!

[blargh29]

@theseanster7 was that a pun for the movie Kick Ass? lol

[MajorYT]

Michael Jackson already used a jet pack on his Dangerous Tour. Go find Man In The Mirror Live in Bucharest 1992.

[igottahoodie]

There only 75K guys stop saying 100

[bcmalloy]

awesome 30min flight pisses all over any other jet pack

[MysticGardenParty]

Wow this is exciting stuff... so maybe in 5 years they will make these things smaller, lighter, going further on less gas and for half the price like 50K? Then we're talking!

[d3f4c3d]

@MysticGardenParty

in 5 years nano tech will change everything and you won't need gas or 50k for this...

[bwenky]

what do u mean?,the jetpack needs fuel...

[d3f4c3d]

there will be alternative fuel or source of energy that last for thousands of years

[zeroflat24]

$100,000 FTL

[elrise]

worst video ever

[morris850]

Pigment looks to be something that the Martin family decided it didn't need.

[MonkeyKingPsycho]

HA, take that mythbusters!!!!!

[diogenden]

@MonkeyKingPsycho mythbasters suck ass man. they really do ^^

[hoverhank]

Let's see it fly Douchesac's !!!!!!

[MrSonicAdvance]

Cool but obviously not easy to control and I wouldn't have wanted to be in the crowd when that thing got out of shape and landed in it!

So deliveries start now do they? Where are they?

[alandeans]

kiwis are awesome we invent everything spliting atoms to flying hahahaha all u americans wash urself wid a rag on a stick

[TheElectrickCompany]

your a muppet speak for yourself your making New Zealand look bad with your ignorant douchebaggery comment

Sorry America We dont hate you your OK!

[GcrackerProductions]

@alandeans Flying was invented by AMERICANS...

[stainlesslobster]

What if one engine goes out or broken fan(prop). Ya ever blow up a balloon and the let it go without tieing it. And even if ya had a reserve it would get sucked in to the fan.

[Myfaceisonfirenow]

This is much better than a ROCKET powered pack as those only last a few minutes if that.

[blacklite911]

This is stupid. The gas powered jetpacks are better, more compact and look cooler.

[stringwhore]

yeah but then u explode

[njrocketbelt]

I have to agree with you blacklite911. The original Rocketbelts/Jetpacks fit nicely on your back have almost no moving parts that can fail in flight! They are small and manageable and can even fit in the trunk of a car! It's been 40+yrs. since they were invented and they still have a 100% safety record.They hold speed, height and distance records They can fly higher and faster than this mechanically complicated contraption ever will. I pity the fool who has this 250lb. widowmaker land on him.

[ApopheniaIV]

lee majors had one in the 70s and it looked much better than that piece of junk

[cbrzyx]

It looked pretty light-weight? I dont think it did. I dont think it sounds like a motorcycle, either. Hope a lot of rich douchebags buy these and kill themselves trying to fly them.

[brandonman94]

Is he using fans to provide lift? If so, that is horribly inefficient.

[Dacool2323]

agreed

[RobH0629]

@brandonman94 Well it can go 30 miles in 30 minutes on a 5 gallon tank of gas.  With the prices of gas today, that's around let's say 17 dollars. It only gets around 6 miles per gallon, but hey that's not bad for fighting against gravity. Although the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide may be more efficient, this thing would still be fun to drive and is cheaper than the $250,000 pricetag on those models which typically get under a minute of air time only and can't lift as much as Martin's can :-)

[johntaka]

why kiwis keep workin' on such GAY stuff ?

bangee-jumpin',haka,and now this !

this is one of the most in-efficient way of flying.

simillar type was made a long time a ago,i mean A LONG TIME AGOOOOOOOO.

after all many decades,its stability is still AS BAD AS original one.

why ppl fall for it !?

hoe much gas do you think it consume for flying 10 min ?

A LOT !

[tenaciousz924]

you are an idiot. they SAID it goes 30 miles or 30 minutes on 5 gallons of gas, so where i live that is 1.70. thats 8.50 per tank to FLY. how is that inefficient?

[monkeyman1140]

Looks dangerous, it should sell well.

[feragrams1st]

what about the jet pack man? his looks like it flys great!? ... in fact with out ppl holding him? and hmmm a 100 grand too!! wow

[thomasuras]

its a pile of chit it cant fly on its own. Like floating? yea just like when u were 2 and your dad picks ya up under the arms and swings ya around

[ARM463DD0N]

thats a pile of shit jetpack watch the other video where the guy flies all over the place with his jetpack

[joed2024]

Well the $100,000 price tag may turn some people off.

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

wow!!!

I don't see never!

[MiIIenia]

Other than the unfortunate voice-over, this video is intriguing. Is there no way of talking about a Jet Pack without having to hear a reference to Superman? Still, cool invention from a New Zealander. I'd like to see the experiment without the two assistants holding onto it :P

[ChezzyKnytt]

Here's a little more info about this demonstration:

They were originally going to do an unguided flight, going up into the air. However, the pilot pulled out at the last minute, so Glenn Martin's son did the demonstration. However, he had not flown that particular model before, so for safety reasons he only did a guided hover.

This can go to 8000 feet.

[therockeronner]

haha i would NEVER take anything like that up to 8000 feet. so many things could go wrong, and if anything does.....

[ChezzyKnytt]

...it's got a ballistic parachute.

[therockeronner]

well thats good for higher altitudes but what else is there for anything under the required height for a parachute? im just thinking of the problems that would need to be covered

[ChezzyKnytt]

It's a ballistic parachute, so it's up extremely fast and is quite small. However, in the extreme case that it doesn't get the parachute up before you hit the ground, it's got a thing they call the "pogo stick" which is basically a shock absorber (you can see it in this video).

Pretty much, if you're high up you've got the parachute. If you're low down, you've got the shock absorber.

[therockeronner]

well then..... i guessi have to start saving up 100 grand!

[paulbutkiss]

Anyway if its so stupid why is it at Oshkosh, fucking idiots diss anything because you're broke as fuck and jeulous.

[paulbutkiss]

Lets see you'res anyway you haters!. 8000 feet 1 hour flying time one hundred thousand US dollars.

[huliogtt]

Let go of it you softies. :)

[alienkaba]

2 guys are holding the jetpack cuz it would probably turn turtle. id like to see it without sum1 holding it.

[paulbutkiss]

Go's to 8000 feet.

[paulbutkiss]

Safely i dont think an idiot like you could afford one sorry!.

[zenzmurfy]

I want to see this thing working in untethered flight. We all see stuff like this and flying cars for example hovering in place, tethered, never in actually flying.

[krazykizza]

Id love one but they must be pretty dangerous if you fall e.t.c. and cannot open a parashute. And logistically its hard to navigate around a built up area :/

[mactos678]

that shit looks retarted, we want competition!

[paulbutkiss]

Fuck you.

[episteme420]

WEAK!!

[paulbutkiss]

NZ do shit proply, look at john britten burt Monroe Bruce Mclaren Richard Pearse Owned, And yes this go's to 8000 feet and can handle strong winds its revolutionary for what it is.

[episteme420]

Thats what I was expecting to see.

[ProphetChaser]

Wow!