So the pilot’s getting ready to land in Los Angeles… he’s about to line-up the runway  looks to his left… and sees this guy in midair… standing up straight… nothing beneath him.

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I love how the control tower is so cooll.  If the pilot had said….

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The guy in the tower woulda said….

——roger.

But There was no teradactyl … but  two different commercial pilots did see this guy with the jetpack.

So what’s the deal?  Can you buy a jetpack?

First of all… this strap-on jetpack isn’t a jet.  Technically it’s a rocket… and the fuel is usually high concentration hydrogen peroxide.  You can not buy it in the drug store.   In fact … nobody makes it anymore.  You have to make it yourself… what could go wrong.

Nothing yet.  Nobody’s ever been killed flying a jetpack.  But There’s one company on earth that has a working model   Jetpack Aviation of California claims their product can fly you to 15-thousand feet in altitutde. 

Before you imagine a world where you commute to work by jetpack… hold on.  The  backpack only has 10 minutes worth of fuel.  So you can’t get that high or that far.   It takes three weeks of lessons to fly the thing… it’d cost you $150,0000 but it doesn’t matter.  They don’t sell it.  To anyone.

They’re figuring the guy up there Sunday… playing catch me if you can…. probably built the jetpack in his garage and he’s a nut.  Going for a spin   in the middle of the flight path…. at the busiest airport in the west.

As that pilot put it… Only in LA.

And as I put it.  What could go wrong?  

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