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.

WASHINGTON — Those of you pondering the future and wondering where your jetpack is, take heart: A human pilot flew a real jetpack for 20 glorious seconds in front of a packed crowd here Saturday ...