Gadgetory

my name is Misha Pollock and I'm an engineer and youtuber and I'm gonna fly a jet pack the jetpack from The Rocketeer to Boba Fett zooming around and a backpack sized device is a dream many of us geeks share you might recognise jetpack Aviation's jb9 it's the jetpack company CEO David Mehmed was wearing when he flew around the Statue of Liberty back in 2015 now the company thinks it's time for a civilian to take flight we're here today because Misha Pollack known vloger won a contest as part of our start engine crowdfunding campaign that we're conducting to try to raise money to build and finalize our parachute safety systems we should won the contest and he will be the first civilian pilot to strap on our JB 10 jetpack and go for his initial flight today the JB 10 has actual turbines on each side of the pilot making it a thrilling powerful and potentially hot experience for a new user why number one strategy is to breathe I'd like to get in like the c+ rain you know the if I'm in the bees I've knocked it out of the park my goal is to not just be dangling there that's kind of my goal I've been told it's very hot and that you have to keep your feet together but that's something you learn over numerous flights obviously I might not do that after some demonstration flights by jetpack Aviation employees with many hours of flight training it was Misha stern to suit up I hope of course always for safe operations and that his feet don't get too hot and it that he meant he possibly manages to just stay in one position maybe three or four feet off the ground and come up on the power Misha's flight was exactly what you might expect from a person using a jet pack for the first time a little bit loose a little unsure and not too far off the ground but the second time he made some adjustments and completed an admirable pair of initial tests place it was great it was really wonderful I'm happy I did it I'm the only negative thing is now I really want to do it again yeah I'm gonna give myself a b-minus even though his feet got hot enough that he had to dunk them in a bucket of water oh that's nice that exhaust for a hot you won't get any heat on your your feet at all if you're off the ground exhaust gas disco smoke past you you spent a lot of time on the ground then of course exhaust gas hits the ground go sideways into your boo so that's why he dumped into the water overall jet packs still have a long way to go before mass adoption by the general public but more immediate uses include military and rescue applications the crowdfund jetpack Aviation is currently running hopes to raise money for an intelligent parachute safety system and it's roadmap also includes a future electric model I don't know of anything more miraculous than a jetpack and it's amazing it's happening it's also amazing it's taken us this long to get here it's still really exciting to watch the jetpack evolve and if I ever get the chance I'll definitely take to the skies just like all those heroes and villains we remember from our childhoods I was about eight years old I was in the backseat of my dad's Packard and on the radio was Buck Rogers and and and this radio program he and his girlfriend came out of their spaceship and flew down to this planet in their jet packs and I thought I really got to have one of those for more jetpack news check out sina.com you