Adventure idea for you to do #8

The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

William Gibson

Back when I was a kid flying a Jetpack was mostly the stuff of science fiction. Yes, they existed but only NASA had them. To the average person Jetpacks were only something in Sci-Fi movies or cartoons. We were told maybe one day in the future we could all fly jetpacks.

The In the last 20 years Jetpack technology has grown by leaps and bounds. Jetpacks are used extensively on space walks. Now they also are being used by firefighters, in search and rescue operations and by the military.

The future is now! With the invention of Hydrojet packs almost anyone can fly a Jetpack. Hydrojet technology allows to you use ordinary water as the propellant instead of some sort of expensive, toxic rocket fuel. You have an umbilical hose the hooks up to a jet ski that you tow behind you.

The biggest limitation to these is you have to be over water for them to work. I don’t see a downside to this at all. There is a learning curve to learning how to pilot one. As you can probably tell by a couple or the photos below, I lost control and crashed several times. I am glad I was over deep water when I did.

It was all in good fun. Even when I panicked underwater, hit the accelerator and torpedoed myself even deeper.