Flying to work on a jetpack comes closer to reality as the Martin Aircraft Company ramps up to produce 500 practical and affordable jetpacks per year First real jetpack: Yours for only $100,000 - CNET ...

With the death of Wendell Moore in 1969 from complications due to a heart attack, the nation's dreams of flying with a real jetpack disappeared for nearly half a century.

JetPack Aviation is currently in the process of developing its next jetpack model, the JB-10. It hopes the JB-10 will be able to stay in the air for 10 minutes or more at a time, and reach speeds ...

The real-life version is much bulkier, stays at a vertical tilt of about 35 degrees in flight, and requires refueling every couple of hours. "Fiction had an idea of what this looks like," Martin says.