Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
Then again, if you go back to the late 50s or early 60s, the US army was experimenting with almost the exact same thing. The only difference was that the prototype the army tried to use was bigger, powered by a big enclosed prop and very short ranged when compared to the platform shown above. The army cancelled the project after a couple of prototypes crashed, killing or injuring the operator. The modern jetpacks and the platform shown could change that thinking
I'm not worried about our US military having them , it's the terrorists , homegrown serial killers , that sort that I'd really rather not get them . Let them become as common as those "Segway" scooters are now and ya just know some jerk is gonna do a fly by shooting somewhere with one , that's the only downside I'm concerned about .