Martin Aircraft Company's breakthrough technology will let people experience what it feels like to fly. The company just created its original flying machine: a jetpack. Who would have thought that it will actually be made? If before everyone thought it just belonged to the movies, now it's on its way to the market.
According to The Guardian, New Zealand's national aviation authority allowed the company's Prototype 12 model jetpack to be used. The jetpacks are set to be available in the market late of 2016. They can fly high approximately 1,000 meters for half an hour, and they used fans as propellers. During the Paris Air Show last June, the flying machines were exhibited.
The invention of these jetpacks is a proof that transit companies like Martin Aircraft are able to extend the boundaries in transportation. Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO said that the world is living in a time where cars will be self-directed. He even gave a timeframe of fifteen to twenty years.
Peter Coker, CEO and Managing Director of the company shared that the machine might seem to be based on an extremely impossible idea. But nevertheless, it was made possible.
News reported on CNN said that during the machine's first public offering it earned $21 million. By 2016, the first model can fly up to 30 minutes with altitudes of up to 3,000 feet at a max speed of almost 46 miles/hour. The company's founder Glenn Martin built the design for over 30 years in his own garage. Coker said that the dream of Glenn Martin is about to come true.
Many transportation-focused businesses share relative ideas and plans with that of Martin Aircraft. Some of these companies have plans of creating a spaceship that can do suborbital flights and aircrafts that can fly and land vertically.
People now can envision the ideas, concepts, and designs of future transportation. And Martin Aircraft jetpacks will only be the beginning.
