Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Boeing will give $2 million to anyone who can build a functional jetpack

We live in a world where formerly unattainable futuristic touchstones like “flying cars” and autonomous vehicles are being treated with straight-faced sincerity by some of the biggest companies in world. So I guess it was only a matter of time before we had to start taking jetpacks seriously, too.

A new two-year, $2 million global competition called the Go Fly Prize was introduced today at an aerospace industry conference in Texas with the goal of producing “an easy-to-use, personal flying device.” The organizers of the contest, which is being sponsored by aerospace giant Boeing, say they want to incentivize teams of students, engineers, and inventors to develop a vertical take-off and landing device (or one that is nearly VTOL) that is...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16362868/boeing-go-fly-prize-jetpack-competition

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/boeing-will-give-2-million-to-anyone.html

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