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the future strapped to your spine, perpetually five years away since 1965
means A wearable propulsion device, strapped to the back, that lets a person fly or hover under their own personal thrust.
from A 20th-century compound of 'jet' and 'pack.' 'Jet' traces back through French to the Latin 'jactare,' to throw or hurl — the same root that gives us 'eject' and 'jetty' — while 'pack' is an old Germanic word for a bundle carried on the body. So literally: a bundle that hurls. The word rode in on the jet age, popularized by the experimental rocket belts of the 1960s, and has hovered in our imaginations far more reliably than over our streets.
- flight time
- Most early models burned out in 30 seconds
- Bond debut
- Thunderball made it iconic in 1965
- fuel issue
- Hydrogen peroxide rockets, almost no useful range
- water version
- Jetlev packs work great over lakes
- world record
- Yves Rossy crossed the English Channel jet-winged
martin jetpack — new zealand company that built manned jetpacks reaching 1000 feet altitude, commercially available 2008-2020
bell rocket belt — strapped rocket-powered flight device demonstrated by wendell moore in 1961, first practical jetpack
go fast jetpack — jet-powered backpack that reached 45 mph and 35 feet altitude, demonstrated in 2016