Vintage jet-propelled backpack

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Bring me home, please

The pilot who tested the rocket-propelled backpack told Popular Science magazine in 1969 that the machine made him "feel safer than I do driving the family car in traffic."

At the time, it was believed that such transportation means was imminent. But a mass-market model never managed to fly.

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From Times Magazine, via Styleborg.

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