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Where's My Jetpack: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson published in April 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The company was founded by Australian inventor David Mayman, who had previously worked in software but had a longstanding interest in developing a jetpack.In the mid-2000s, he began working with Nelson Tyler, an engineer and inventor in Hollywood who had previously worked on the Bell Rocket Belt in the 1980s.
Franky Zapata on a Flyboard Air in 2022.. Flyboard Air is a type of jetpack/hoverboard powered by gas turbines. [1] It was invented by French water-craft rider Franky Zapata, founder of Zapata racing.
Daniel H. Wilson (born March 6, 1978) is an American author, [1] television host and robotics engineer. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.His books include the award-winning humor titles How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army and the bestseller Robopocalypse.
In the most general terms, a jet pack is a wearable device which allows the user to fly by providing thrust.With the exception of use in a microgravity environment, this thrust must be upwards so as to overcome the force of gravity, and must be enough to overcome the weight of the user, the jet pack itself and its fuel.
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The Martin Jetpack was a single-person aircraft under development. Despite its name, it did not use a jet pack as such, but ducted fans for lift. Martin Aircraft Company of New Zealand (not related to Glenn L. Martin Company, the US company also known as Martin Aircraft) developed it, and unveiled it at the Experimental Aircraft Association's 2008 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US.
Daniel H. Wilson – roboticist and author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army and the bestseller Robopocalypse; Grace Steele Woodward – writer and historian; Antonio Zarro – actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker