The JetLev
Ok, I want one of these. Here's the details from the website:
Jetlev Sports Inc. is proud to introduce the JETLEV-FLYER, the recreational jetpack almost anyone can enjoy over water. It is designed for safety, stability, ease-of-use, and precise and effortless flight controls. Learn to take off, fly, turn, hover and land in as little as six minutes.
No other flying device even comes close to the JETLEV-FLYER’s stability, agility and ease of use. Feel as one with the jetpack when you fly, and experience levitation flight so stable that everyone—including you—would think that you are suspended on cables. The three-dimensional degree of freedom will thrill and enthrall you like nothing else you have ever experienced, yet you can fly over deep water with the assurance that it is one of the safest powersports ever invented. The JETLEV-FLYER will change every pre-conceived notion about personal flight!
Unlike conventional aircrafts and jetpacks, the innovative Jetlev concept greatly improves thrust-to-weight ratio by locating the propulsion engine, fuel and related systems on a separate vessel tethered behind the jetpack, and uses water as the jet propulsion medium because its high density can carry vast amounts of power at much lower velocities, and generate nozzle reaction forces much more effectively, than gases.
There will be two versions, one with a 155 HP engine and the other with 215 HP. Top speed of the 215 HP model is expected to easily exceed 40 mph (64 km/h), and flight ceiling will still be restricted to 28 feet (8.5 m) for safety reasons.
For performance and duration records and other special applications, future versions of JETLEV-FLYER could reach speeds in excess of 50 mph (80 km/h), altitudes of 50 feet (15 m), cruise duration of 5 hours, range exceeding 180 miles (300 km), and carry payloads in excess of 1000 lbs (454 kg). Ultimately, it is largely safety considerations, not technical limitations that will dictate the limits of design.
Of course a cool toy like this isn't usually cheap, and this one is very expensive at $99,000 Euros, which is about $126,000 USD. You can check the system out though, and see a video of it in action, over at the JetLev site HERE.
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