News - Martin Jetpack offers personal flight for a cool £58,000

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The world's first commercially available jetpack is now on sale, and you won't need a pilot's license to fly one.

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I love totally pointless things that are still mega awesome :D

You know as I look at my savings, I wonder, ISA or JetPack?

This just seams like insainly good value, putting such loonancy in the reach of the average joe. If there was a decent time share style program, I'd have at it :)

Wants

that's still insanely heavy... Are you expected to just stand still in place and power off to different spots... don't see it being possible to walk with this thing at all unless you're superman :O_o1:

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Originally Posted by dbh

that's still insanely heavy... Are you expected to just stand still in place and power off to different spots... don't see it being possible to walk with this thing at all unless you're superman :O_o1:

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Pretty much. I think it is to be used like a mini private helicopter.

will make the commute to work a lot easier! bring it on over here - just gotta make sure i dont end up in the thames!

Hell yeah :D:D

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Originally Posted by TheAnimus

You know as I look at my savings, I wonder, ISA or JetPack?

This just seams like insainly good value, putting such loonancy in the reach of the average joe. If there was a decent time share style program, I'd have at it :)

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Hehe true. Company cars can be more expensive...

Can you get it to run on renewable energy?

Perhaps there could be a Redbull AirRace with high power jetpacks! That's could be fun.

are you saying you wouldn't spend £5k on a 1 month time share on something like this if you had the money nocking about?

I don't see the point in me buying a car right now (london) but this..... this i can see. (humms the theme from Thunderball)

This thing is just pimping. Imagine flying to the pub (or even better, back from the pub. Catch me drink driving now coppers!) in one of these things :D

Can still be done for "drunk in charge of...", then there are all the aviation laws that go along with piloting an aircraft. I think you would get done harder than if you'd just driven :)

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

I love totally pointless things that are still mega awesome :D

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Dont be such a buzzkill, it would be awesome! Theyd never catch you anyway, assuming you werent drunk enough to crash it

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Originally Posted by Funkstar

Can still be done for "drunk in charge of...", then there are all the aviation laws that go along with piloting an aircraft. I think you would get done harder than if you'd just driven :)

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My bad, meant to quote Funkstar with above post