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May 8, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 19 comments
Capable of 30 minutes of flight at around 60 miles per hour, the Martin Jetpack can apparently go as high as 8,000 feet in the air. Naturally, its creator has equipped the device with an integrated ballistic parachute, just in case something goes wrong with its engine while you’re flying around. You certainly wouldn’t want that machine to stop working on you while you look like a minuscule dot to people on the ground.
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At the point of failure, you are better off with enough altitude for a parachute to work. The most dangerous point is closer to the ground – high enough that a fall can kill you, and low enough that a parachute does not have time to work.
Yes, exactly. Those are the only important issues in this whole article, and funny thing is, they’re not mentioned.
hence the “ballistic parachute”
Always nervous of machines that use limbs as fenders.
I just want one!!! what a great promotional tool ! I can see my flying around with whotune.com painted on the side & an even bigger logo on the ballistic parachute visible to all as I plunge to earth screaming! still want one though
how much is it? I could get to work 10 times faster… how much?
woooooooow!!
Menudo trasto.
Me parece una tontería.
Demasiado grande e inseguro. No tiene futuro.
Reply in English in a English website you tools.
insecure much?
who is the tool here i thought www stood for world wide web bigoted idiot
Hi. I don’t put www. in front of every web address meaning that I must be accessing a different internet – I only put http:// This must mean that I’m not on the world wide web – which in turn means that I can’t be bigoted for wanting users to speak the same language that everyone else on this website would just so happen to be speaking.
P.S. Try just going to google.com sometime, or aol.com without putting a WWW.! I swear, you get a whole different website! omg!
Your English (grammar) is atrocious ! Use the letter “a” before a consonant. and use “an” before a vowel.
For grammar dummies that means: an English>not a English tool.
Make it more compact, longer that 30 minutes of flight and I’d buy it!
funny, all that work gone into it, and it doesnt even have a seat
Wow, it’s an amzing machine that make the ground not too crowded, I think all machine could be a killer tools to all, just how the user trained. It’s a step ahead in human mobile tools
It’s my dream!
Wonderful New Zealand invention