One of the most popular visions is the flight dream. I know it’s one of my favorites. Even though asleep, I can recall the feeling of floating above the ground and lifting into the sky, and, suffice it to say, it’s pretty darn cool. Now there’s a company in New Zealand that wants to give everyone the chance at that feeling, assuming everyone has a bit more than $75,000 of disposable income.
According to the UK’s Metro, Glenn Martin of Martin Aircraft has “a 200 horsepower engine capable of taking a pilot to 60 mph, a height of 2,400 metres [sic] and a distance of 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full tank of fuel.” And the jet pack is apparently light enough (a little more than 250 lbs.) that a person wouldn’t need to get a pilot’s license to use it.
Martin Aircraft’s Richard Lauder, the company’s chief executive, wants to make 500 of these rocket packs a year. And the nice thing is that he’s envisioning it being used for the right reason. As he’s quoted in the article, “This could be life-saving stuff. For us this is an excellent commercial step.”
But if you think there won’t be millionaires lining up to snap one of these babies up, think again.
Check out the video below of a demonstration:
Photo courtesy of SamJUK via Flickr.