Jet backpack will be available, allowing you to achieve the dream of soaring the sky

According to the British "Daily Telegraph" reported that in Christchurch, New Zealand, Martin Aircraft Company produced 500 copies of the one-year personal jet pack, is priced at 50,000 pounds (about 557,000). The invention allows the designer said that ordinary people can achieve the dream of soaring the sky.

"Personal jet pack" will be available for 30-minute flight 48 kilometers

Construction and operation of specific

This from the Air New Zealand designer Glenn Martin (Glenn Martin) invention of the personal jet pack looks more like a hovercraft instead of jets. The use of gasoline engine motor fan driven by two 200-horsepower car dual-propeller, the propeller in the two appeared to be oversized soup cans in horizontal rotary device. Glenn Martin said that the helicopter ducted fan design than unshielded motor more efficient. Engine, fuel tank and the pilot is in the middle and the bottom of the lift fan to lower the center of gravity to avoid the process of jet backpack upside down in flight and crashed into the ground.

Personal jet pack of two prominent lever forward for pilots to master hands. Control of the propeller on the left is a before and after the event and to both sides of the tilt of the joystick lever to the right of the role of the equivalent of accelerators, while the engine start and stop switches and emergency parachute button is located behind the pilots head.

The personal jet pack, weighing about 115 kg, and no pilot's license. It can fly 48 km within 30 minutes. Recent experiments show that it can fly to a height of 2,400 meters, the maximum speed can reach 27 meters / sec.

Wide range of uses

Martin Aircraft Company CEO Richard Lord (Richard Lauder) that such personal jet pack applies to private users, and even military applications, can achieve good results, for the fire station or emergency relief is also an ideal tool for .