{"id":195019,"date":"2008-08-03T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/03\/i-want-my-jetpack\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T11:52:00","slug":"i-want-my-jetpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/03\/i-want-my-jetpack\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want My Jetpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only $100,000.00, and it&#8217;s supposed to have <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/29\/america\/jetpack.php\">about an hour&#8217;s endurance<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/flightblogger\/2008\/07\/breaking-exclusive-martin-jetp.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It sounds a lot like a lawn mower, and based on the video (see below) I think that the flight controls are not ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it probably needs some refinement&#8230;.It has a 200 hp engine, as compared to the 178 hp engine used in the original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_47\">Bell Model 47<\/a>, (The chopper you see carrying wounded in the opening credits for the M*A*S*H TV series), so my guess is that there is a some aerodynamic refinement that could be done, in addition to getting weight out of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it comes with its own ballistic recovery parachute, a must for the ham-handed pilot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img205.imageshack.us\/img205\/2296\/martinjetpackflightblogwf7.jpg\" width=\"129\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img205.imageshack.us\/img205\/4342\/29jetpack550kk5.jpg\" width=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1213900496\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"videoId=1691257877&amp;playerId=1213900496&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" width=\"500\" height=\"620\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only $100,000.00, and it&#8217;s supposed to have about an hour&#8217;s endurance (see also here). It sounds a lot like a lawn mower, and based on the video (see below) I think that the flight controls are not ready for prime time. Additionally, it probably needs some refinement&#8230;.It has a 200 hp engine, as compared to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}