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Glenn Martin's jetpack

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Watch this video of an indoor test-flight of the jetpack invented by New Zealander Glenn Martin. While still in the testing stage in 2009, the jetpack could be ordered for delivery in 2010.

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Mark Derby, Inventions, patents and trademarks – Transport inventions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/25405/glenn-martins-jetpack (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 11 May 2010, updated 1 February 2015.