New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Company’s flagship product is an unconventional flying machine: a jetpack that might seem like a prop from a sci-fi movie, were it not for the fact that it’s well on the road to commercialization.
In October, New Zealand’s civil aviation authority cleared the company’s Prototype 12 model jetpack for manned flights. The fan-propelled jetpack, when shown in June at the Paris Air Show, could soar almost 1,000 meters and fly up to half an hour.
Image: The view from a Toyota self-driving car prototype on the Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo in a October 2015 media preview. Photograph: Yuya Shino/Reuters - http://www.theguardian.com
