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Radical Rockits is out to make the jetpack fun again

Radical Rockits is out to make the jetpack fun again

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Pity the poor jetpack, forever stuck at the dweeby-but-not-practical stage of technological development. Sure, the jetpack looked neat when Buck Rogers used one to zoom through the sky in a 1928 edition of the comic series Amazing Stories, but it’s basically all been downhill since then. In order to
Two grizzled skydivers used jetpacks to create high camp

Two grizzled skydivers used jetpacks to create high camp

1 min read News
This is not a joke; it’s a jetpack. Well, maybe it’s a joke, but it’s definitely a jetpack. More specifically, the object at hand is a wing that can be attached to a sort of backpack worn by the skydivers Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet. The wing is equipped with multiple small engines that can propel t