Along with food pills and robot butlers, the futurists of the past generation seemed pretty confident that by 2015, we would each be issued our own personal flying device that would whisk us to our ...

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Well! Here’s something that will make you feel like a tremendous coward. Not only is flight enthusiast “Jetman” Yves Rossy unafraid to strap on a giant winged jetpack, he flew across the Grand Canyon ...

French pilot Franky Zapata flies his Flyboard jetpack during the 2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Credit: VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images The mysterious figure known as the "jetpack man" ...