Remember the "Jet-pack" episode? well you kind of failed in building and considered a working jet-pack BUSTED. Well in the news I saw a man fly a jet-pack accross a gorge. Heres the site to the news entry: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10107675-76.html

and heres a YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTPZYvEu2M&feature=related

Sure its not a few miles but its better then an inch off the ground

it is possible but not practical

deffinatly it can be done a Film Canister Rocket
2 in. goes 13 ft. w alkaseltzer,water,vinager, and baking soda.

That particular jet pack has been around since 1965 and has been demonstrated many, many times. It has 2 basic problems; it can only fly for less than 25 seconds, and if it malfunctions or runs out of fuel, the pilot is going to die. There are many designs that have been tried since WWII and they all have the same 2 fundamental problems.

Jet Packs

Jet Packs are possible they are just stupidly expensive to run because of the price of the speical fuel needed to run them, they cannot run for very long because of the very limit fuel capicity, very difficult to control making crashes rather likely and any failure could result in the pilot falling to his doom or going up in a cloud of smoke because of the very flamable fuel.

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Originally posted by Mythtallica:
Remember the "Jet-pack" episode? well you kind of failed in building and considered a working jet-pack BUSTED. Well in the news I saw a man fly a jet-pack accross a gorge. Heres the site to the news entry: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10107675-76.html

and heres a YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTPZYvEu2M&feature=related

Sure its not a few miles but its better then an inch off the ground

What Adam and Jamie constructed was more a minicopter than a Jetpack anyways..

Adam and Jamie must surely re visit the jet pack myth or check out the info on YOUTUBE the guy is ERIC SCOTT he works for GO FAST Energy drink company I saw him for the first time on AMERICAN CHOPPER he flew on to the set and it's not fake.
RE-VISIT GO FAST JET PACK... It's definitely not BUSTED!!!

I wish you junior jetpackers would pay attention. That jetpack had been around for more than a generation; we've all seen it. The MBs myth was that you could build one from plans on the Net. They bought the plans, improved on them , did a job that most people couldn't, and it still didn't work.