An aviator flew by jetpack in a controlled and sustained flight around Statue of Liberty.
The JB-9 is small enough to sit in the back seat of a car but powerful enough to fly thousands of feet high.
The JB-9 jetpack, approved for the flight by the FAA and US Coast Guard was developed by legendary Hollywood inventor (and winner of 3 Academy Awards), Nelson Tyler and Mayman. The miniature jet-turbine back pack is fast, powerful, and unlike rocket powered belts, safe and practical to operate. Tyler and Mayman have spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours secretly developing the device which has never before been seen in public. Their struggle has been documented over the last eight years by an Emmy-award winning film team.
The JB-9 is powered by two turbine jet engines that have been specially adapted.
Its inventors says it is 'inherently stable but also capable of very dynamic manoeuvres thanks to our approach to engine vectoring'
Early testing of the next version, JB-10, indicates that it will achieve flights of over 10,000 feet altitude, at speeds greater than 100 mph and with an endurance of 10 minutes + (depending on pilot weight).
The JB-9 uses a carbon-fiber corset that straps to the pilot's back, with the majority of the 'backpack' section carrying fuel.
Mounted to each side is a small jet turbine engine that provides upward thrust.
On the left controller is a yaw twistgrip.
The JB-9 carries 10 pounds of kerosene fuel that burns through two vectored thrust engines at a rate of one gallon per minute for up to ten minutes of flying time - depending on pilot weight. Weight of fuel is a consideration but it's reported to start with 500ft/minute climb rate that doubles as the fuel burns off. While this model has been limited to 55knots (100kph), the prototype of the JB-10 is reported to fly at over 200kph.
This is a true jetpack: a backpack that provides jet-powered flight. Most of the volume is the fuel tank, with twin turbine jet engines gimbal-mounted on each side. The control system is identical to the Bell Rocketbelt: tilting the handgrips vectors the thrust - left-right and forward-back - by moving the actual engines; twisting left hand moves two nozzle skirts for yaw; while twisting the right hand counterclockwise increases throttle. Jetpack Aviation was started by Australian businessman David Mayman with the technical knowhow coming from Nelson Tyler, prolific inventor of helicopter-mounted camera stabilizers and one of the engineers that worked on the Bell Rocketbelt that was used in the 1984 Olympic
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The JB-9 is small enough to sit in the back seat of a car but powerful enough to fly thousands of feet high.
The JB-9 jetpack, approved for the flight by the FAA and US Coast Guard was developed by legendary Hollywood inventor (and winner of 3 Academy Awards), Nelson Tyler and Mayman. The miniature jet-turbine back pack is fast, powerful, and unlike rocket powered belts, safe and practical to operate. Tyler and Mayman have spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours secretly developing the device which has never before been seen in public. Their struggle has been documented over the last eight years by an Emmy-award winning film team.
The JB-9 is powered by two turbine jet engines that have been specially adapted.
Its inventors says it is 'inherently stable but also capable of very dynamic manoeuvres thanks to our approach to engine vectoring'
Early testing of the next version, JB-10, indicates that it will achieve flights of over 10,000 feet altitude, at speeds greater than 100 mph and with an endurance of 10 minutes + (depending on pilot weight).
The JB-9 uses a carbon-fiber corset that straps to the pilot's back, with the majority of the 'backpack' section carrying fuel.
Mounted to each side is a small jet turbine engine that provides upward thrust.
On the left controller is a yaw twistgrip.
The JB-9 carries 10 pounds of kerosene fuel that burns through two vectored thrust engines at a rate of one gallon per minute for up to ten minutes of flying time - depending on pilot weight. Weight of fuel is a consideration but it's reported to start with 500ft/minute climb rate that doubles as the fuel burns off. While this model has been limited to 55knots (100kph), the prototype of the JB-10 is reported to fly at over 200kph.
This is a true jetpack: a backpack that provides jet-powered flight. Most of the volume is the fuel tank, with twin turbine jet engines gimbal-mounted on each side. The control system is identical to the Bell Rocketbelt: tilting the handgrips vectors the thrust - left-right and forward-back - by moving the actual engines; twisting left hand moves two nozzle skirts for yaw; while twisting the right hand counterclockwise increases throttle. Jetpack Aviation was started by Australian businessman David Mayman with the technical knowhow coming from Nelson Tyler, prolific inventor of helicopter-mounted camera stabilizers and one of the engineers that worked on the Bell Rocketbelt that was used in the 1984 Olympic
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