Martin Jetpack. Maybe an IPO in the offing

[Nevl]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...-to-raise-cash

I'm in!!

[fungus pudding]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...-to-raise-cash

I'm in!!

I'm not.

[CJ]

As Sam Morgan said - it is a solution trying to find a problem to solve.

personally I think the Hulme sports car was more marketable and we know what happened to that capital raising.

I just dont see a huge market for it. Drones are the future for the military.

[fungus pudding]

As Sam Morgan said - it is a solution trying to find a problem to solve.

personally I think the Hulme sports car was more marketable and we know what happened to that capital raising.

I just dont see a huge market for it. Drones are the future for the military.

Add to that that it's nowhere near market ready, and the moment it is, and if the market is proven, Toyota or Samsung or anybody at all in that game could immediately blow it out of the race. All due respect to the inventor. I wish him well, but the product is a toy.

[Nevl]

As Sam Morgan said - it is a solution trying to find a problem to solve.

personally I think the Hulme sports car was more marketable and we know what happened to that capital raising.

I just dont see a huge market for it. Drones are the future for the military.

Superyachts, an easy way of getting to shore and exploring interesting areas and would basically cost bugger all on a superyacht budget. Adventure sports, for skydiving and those type of companies are 2 markets. Easy to set up a business in Rotorua and Queenstown.

[Alkie]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...g-easyJet.html
Or maybe this?

[minimoke]

Superyachts, an easy way of getting to shore

Presumably the Jet pack will come with the Chihuahua carrier as an optional extra.

and exploring interesting areas

So thats a hands free version of teh jetpack so you can take photos.

Adventure sports, for skydiving and those type of companies are 2 markets.

Lower than a 8m freefall, slower than a fly-by wire, heavier than a parachute, more expensive than a bunjy jump. Shorter flight time than a microlight. The marketing people will no doubt see the opportunity.

Easy to set up a business in Rotorua and Queenstown.

Getting past civil aviation rules will be a challenge. Do you seriously think an adventure operator will let some hungover German loose on one?

[CJ]

Superyachts, an easy way of getting to shore and exploring interesting areas and would basically cost bugger all on a superyacht budget. Adventure sports, for skydiving and those type of companies are 2 markets. Easy to set up a business in Rotorua and Queenstown.

re adventure tourism.These aren't like quad bikes. I assume you would need a pilots license and special training on the specific device.

Re super yachts: there is civil aviation - would you be allowed to land on the beach at Nice? and what do you do with it when you do land (parking meter as suggested?). Also all your guess would still need to use the tender.

As I said above, I think the market is just to niche, and that is once the work out the safety issues (I assume getting the contraption of the ground is the easy part, making it safe and controllable will be the difficult part).

[Rocketman]

Markets: 1. Recreational aviation - for people who just want to fly - currently more than 1m people with pilots licences 2. Aeroclubs, who want interesting aircraft in the fleet, and want to train people to fly 3800 flight shcools in US 3. Governments for border patrol, emergency response, search and rescue, policing - where a jetpack is much cheaper than a helicopter, much easier to fly, and can operated in more confined spaces. 4. Tourism - electronically constrained flights for people who just want to fly a jetpack once in their life. 5. Military - in particular in unmanned form for forward resupply, air mobile communications and survelience towers, convoy leading ground perntrating radar for IED detection etc. 6. Civilian - building instection, aerial photography, remote site access, farm inspection. And there will be others as time goes on.

[Rocketman]

Minimoke - I defined real markets in my very first post

Markets: 1. Recreational aviation - for people who just want to fly - currently more than 1m people with pilots licences 2. Aeroclubs, who want interesting aircraft in the fleet, and want to train people to fly 3800 flight shcools in US 3. Governments for border patrol, emergency response, search and rescue, policing - where a jetpack is much cheaper than a helicopter, much easier to fly, and can operated in more confined spaces. 4. Tourism - electronically constrained flights for people who just want to fly a jetpack once in their life. 5. Military - in particular in unmanned form for forward resupply, air mobile communications and survelience towers, convoy leading ground perntrating radar for IED detection etc. 6. Civilian - building instection, aerial photography, remote site access, farm inspection..