Personal Jetpack for only $100,000

Thunderbolt Aerosystems announced last week the availability of their Thunderpack TP-R2G2 for “a price under $100,000.” For that $100K you will get about 75 seconds of flight time at up to 75mph on a hydrogen peroxide dual fuel mixture. The company hopes that they will be unveiling a jet propelled variant, dubbed Thunderjet, before the end of the year that will offer up to 35 minutes of flight for around the same price. It seems to me like they’re making real progress in this field, they still have a long way to go. While it’s an impressive technical accomplishment, 75 seconds of flight for 100k is pretty absurd. Even at 35 minutes of flight time the price tag will have to come down significantly for it to be adopted for widespread use in “a host of defense, commercial and personal purposes, including support of military missions, disaster relief efforts, border patrol assignments, and even overcoming those snail-paced commutes.”