As a means of marketing their jet suits, Gravity Industries recently held the world’s first jet suit races in Dubai. Eight competitors competed two at a time in roughly 60-second races around 12 pylons set up in the water, with the five fastest advancing to the finals. Racers reached speeds

This is a video of Gravity company founder Richard Browning ascending Helvellyn, a 3,100 foot English mountain in less than four minutes to demonstrate the jetpack’s capabilities in search-and-rescue applications. Pretty impressive. Granted, we’re still way behind schedule on having affordable jetpacks available to everyone, which is a shame because

In go go gadget ROFLcopter news, this is a video of Ascend Dynamics testing its SkyPak V1 electric powered ‘jetpack’. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I agree, the wood support makes it look that much cooler — like you’re a flying human mailbox. The non-jetpack is actually powered

This is a video released by jetpack manufacturer Gravity Industries of a ship-boarding exercise organized by the UK Royal Marines using its product. It’s similar to this previously seen footage they released, but better. And while certainly impressive, as commenter TheCureForHope pointed out on the last article, “Hopefully everyone they

This is a video of the UK’s Royal Navy receiving a demonstration from Gravity Industries showing how their jetpacks could be used to board ocean vessels, in this case the HMS Dasher. Admittedly, not a bad use for a jetpack. Maybe not as good of a use as flying into

This is the ‘Jetpack Pick Me Up Inflatable Costume’ created by Morph-Costumes and available on Amazon for $60. You know as a kid I figured by Halloween 2020 we’d be trick-or-treating with ACTUAL jetpacks on, blasting off from door to door to visit as many houses as possible while avoiding

This is a video of Richard Browning of Gravity Industries flying one of the company’s jet suits over the beautiful landscapes of Iceland (it isn’t all ice!). The video includes some first-person and over-the-shoulder footage as well so you can really pretend like you’re there. Of course they replaced the