Originally Posted by
capngrog
In this age of all too realistic CGI, I'm afraid that I'm a bit of Doubting Thomas with respect to all of this. Has anyone seen technical/engineering details of the design of these jetpacks? It would be interesting to see how the thrust is divided among the 5 jet engines, and how thrust control is managed ... among other details.
There are far too many videos of this particular ‘system’, both online and on TV, for them to be faked. If they were fake, their CGI budget would run into the millions, far more than it has cost to develop the system in the first place.
As for the details of the system, have you tried searching for their patent applications, both in the UK and worldwide? They might reveal some of the technical details.
This is very definitely a ‘thing’. However, as has been pointed out for multiple reasons,
HEMS isn’t going to be one of the applications.