Martin Jetpack - a personal ultralight aircraft

Martin Jetpack - a personal ultralight aircraft vertical takeoff and landing. Developer - New Zealand private company Martin Aircraft. Propulsion - Propellers small-diameter ring channels, rotated two-stroke internal combustion engine. Was introduced July 29, 2008 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, an event organized by the Association Experimental Aviation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Backpack designed for 30-minute flight and runs on gasoline-liter engine 200 hp V4 The screws are made of a composite material composed of Kevlar and carbon. It is noteworthy that the small weight of the structure - about 240 kg - allows to fly without a pilot license and a special training provided to all pilots. The maximum speed that can develop in flight is 100 km / h, but the engine was built in push-pull configuration, it is "greedy" - a complete filling is enough for 50 km of the flight.

Mass production of the personal aircraft is scheduled to begin in 18 months, but now that the trials are under way. During the last testing experts have been studying the Martin Aircraft flying at high for such a compact aircraft altitude, and also demonstrated the work of the emergency ballistic parachute.

During the test pack at a speed of 4 m / s up to a height of 1,500 meters, then the machine began to decline, after which, according to a plan of tests, at an altitude of 900 meters in action was given an emergency landing system. The device remotely operated James Bowker (James Bowker), while flying in the cabin next to the helicopter.