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California’s JetPack Aviation (JPA) has been building and flying some of the world’s first genuine long-endurance jetpacks for many years now, but while founder, CEO and chief pilot David Mayman has been having most of the fun (and taking a lot of the … Continue reading JetPack Aviation makes first jetpack sales to unnamed military
Japan’s Tetra Aviation won a hundred-grand “disruptor award” at the GoFly personal flight contest last year, and has now presented its first commercial product at OshKosh: a 33-rotor Mk5 personal eVTOL it hopes to begin delivering to buyers in 2022.Con… Continue reading Tetra Aviation debuts single-seat buy ‘n’ fly personal eVTOL
After spending 18 months building an entirely new form of flight control software, California’s Jetpack Aviation has completed flight testing on its first prototype of the Speeder, a jet turbine-powered flying motorcycle. Top speeds on the final versio… Continue reading Jetpack Aviation’s flying motorcycle prototype aces first tests
Electric VTOLs are shaping up as something you’ll use as a service, rather than something you’d buy and keep in your garage for personal use. But Next UAS wants to re-open the conversation on personal ownership, with this single-seat iFly concept.Conti… Continue reading Next UAS wants you to own your own eVTOL, without a pilot’s license
Last month, we reported on astonishing first flight footage from the Copterpack, an Australian electric personal flight device. Now, eagle-eyed pixel peepers have scrutinized the video and presented evidence that a tether wire has been edited out.Conti… Continue reading Internet sleuths find evidence of Copterpack video tampering
Montreal’s Alexandru Duru first flew his electric multirotor hoverboard back in 2015, and quickly set a Guinness World Record for distance. Now this levitating madman is working to commercialize it for sale, while performing stunt shows on the side.Con… Continue reading Omni Hoverboard takes a super-simple approach to personal flight
A green alternative to the humble kerosene-burning jetpack? Recently released video shows an Australian man rising high off the ground using a two-rotor electric personal flight device he calls the Copterpack. It’s bulky, but looks surprisingly stable … Continue reading Aussie electric Copterpack makes sensational first manned flight
Jet suits, jetpacks, jetboards … The new range of crazy personal flight devices all share some things in common: plenty of people would love to fly one, very few have the cash to own one, and even fewer can probably be trusted to fly them safely and … Continue reading Royal Marines test Gravity jet suit in ship boarding exercise
He flew too close to the sun. French extreme sports athlete Vince Reffet has died after a jet suit training incident in the desert near Dubai. The 36-year-old was the second person on the planet to fly Yves Rossi’s Jetman flight suit.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Jet suit pilot Vince Reffet dies in Dubai crash
Another stunning milestone for the Jetman team, as pilot Vince Reffet demonstrates the new ability to take off from the ground, then hit the gas on the carbon jet wing’s four turbine engines and soar away into the sky.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft… Continue reading Transition to winged flight marks another world-first for Jetman