Up In The Sky, It's A Bird, It's A Plane...

[Epsilon]

No, but it's about the coolest thing ever.

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Epsilon

My inner eight year wants one.

[Bob Schroeck]

Seconded.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[ordnance11]

Beats taking the freeway!
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

[Star Ranger4]

still needs more thrust if your gonna get a vertical takeoff out of it though... it does mention that he started from a plane.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[robkelk]

Drat, Aaron - you scooped me again. But there's more details about the jetpack and the pilot in http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15 ... jet_stunt/]the story on The Register...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012