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Crazy Jumpsuited Man Sets New Speed Record for Jetpacks
9:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Like some kind of cross between NASCAR and Evel Knievel, Eric Scott of Jet Pack International recently set a new speed record for jetpacks: A surprisingly-fast 98kph. More »
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Amazing Water-Powered Jetpack Basically Straps a Fire Hose to Your Arse
8:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Who knew that the secret to a great jetpack was strapping a giant, powerful, dangerous hose to your back and jetting above a body of water? Required viewing: video after the jump. More »
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Water-Powered Jetpack Would Be the Most Godly Firefighting Tool Ever
11:28PM Mark Wilson | You know how some jerk in a water gun fight always cheats by grabbing the hose? Well, this pilot could totally beat that guy at his own game. More »
Science
The Physics Behind the Insanely Dangerous Japanese Water Jetpack
9:43AM Adam Frucci | PopSci’s Adam “Easy Joke” Weiner has worked out the physics of a super crazy Japanese water jetpack. Science is cool and all, but I just like watching this guy get tossed across a lake. More »
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Jet Pack Crosses 450m Long Colorado Canyon, Breaks World Record
4:15AM Jesus Diaz | Stuntman, jet pack pilot, and Evel Knievel-wannabe without the Elvis suit Eric Scott has broke a world record by flying 450 metres in 21 seconds over the Royal Gorge in Colorado, 312 metres over the Arkansas River. Pardon my French, but it has to take some balls to do this jump. Some balls and a hydrogen peroxide-powered jet pack with a carbon fibre design. More »
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Jet Pack Guy Crosses English Channel
1:00AM Mark Wilson | I don’t expect you mere wingless mortals to truly appreciate the accomplishment of a pilot who just crossed the 35km English Channel with a jetpack—that’d be like someone who can’t read claiming to love the study of Cuneiform—but from one rocket man to another, I salute you, Yves Rossy. More »
Vehicles
Jetpack Inventor Answers the Hard Questions (and One Fun One)
5:45AM Mark Wilson | There’s more than a little scepticism surrounding the new Martin Jetpack. Promising a new era of ultralight flight, many of the claims (altitude capabilities and safety, especially) sound too good to be true. Before we took our test flight, we asked Glenn Martin, inventor, some of the tougher questions that we hadn’t seen asked anywhere else. Being a good sport, he actually answered them: More »
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Hands On: Jetpack!
1:30AM Mark Wilson | “Don’t cover your ears, this is what you paid to see!” Glenn Martin shouts to me over the apocalyptic roar of an F22 fighter jet performing a leisurely flyby. He’d abruptly broken off a conversation with someone else just to make this point–before we’d even been introduced and hours before I flew his pack. “That’s 3.15 billion of your tax dollars at work!” More »
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How it Feels to Fly a Jetpack
2:30AM Mark Wilson | I flip the ignition switch and 113kg of engines, turbines and gasoline roar hello. In terms of horsepower, I was carrying a small sports car on my back. I’d like to say that I grin confidently and give the cameras a wink, like some young Chuck Yeager or Evel Knievel, but the smile leaves my face. More »
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