Ponca City, We love you writes "Jet packs have been around for half a century, but there's always been one problem: they run out of rocket fuel very quickly. Now a German company has taken the standard jetpack design, run a fat yellow hose out the back, and connected it to a small unmanned boat which houses an engine, pump and fuel tank that sends pressurized water back up the hose, where it's shot out by two nozzles just behind the wearer's shoulders. Called the JetLev-Flyer, the design can purportedly reach a height of 50 feet, a speed of 45 mph and a range of 300 kilometers based on four hours of flying time. A digital fly-by-wire system is used to control the throttle and future designs may achieve higher altitudes and top speeds, extended range and even travel below the water's surface. The American manufacturers claim it is "amazingly easy to learn and operate" and they're taking orders now at $130,000 each."
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