Earlier this year, a Canadian inventor caused a stir when he announced his company was taking orders for the world's first commercially-viable jetpack. The water-powered Jetlev, invented by Raymond Li ...

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Fritz Unger and his friend have been working on the Skyflash jetpack project since 2007, mostly with the help of online donations, and the pair have started running piloted tests on the engines and ...

Looking to live fast and quite possibly die young? Got $2500 burning a hole in your pocket? Do I have a potentially badass obituary for you! Updated. This homemade jetpack is being sold by some dude ...

Still waiting for this world of the future of ours to give you your jetpack? Well, a Jetsons-like future may never happen, because everyone zipping around in jetpacks would be chaos, but if you know a ...

Swiss aviator Yves Rossy flew his self-constructed jetpack over Mount Fuji nine times last week. He jumped from a helicopter and fired up the four jet engines strapped to his back, then soared on a ...

Yves Rossy, a former Swiss pilot, has invented a jetpack system which uses carbon-fiber wings and four jet engines. He used it to fly over Mt. Fuji. Mt. Fuji, which last erupted in 1707 to 1708, is ...

Swiss pilot Yves "Jetman" Rossy strapped himself into a homemade jetpack — designed and built by Rossy himself — and jumped out of a helicopter hovering around Mt. Fuji in Japan. After a short free ...