While technically you could do pure electric, limited flight time is a major problem. Batteries don't yet have even close to the energy density of fossil fuel to compete.

While watching this, all I can think is, how awesome are flying animals.

Thank you for covering this. 💝

Flight time and cost are going to be the real limiting factors here. 5 minutes still really limits the possible applications.

Thanks for the info and your time It’s well presented and appreciated 👍

This is so cool - can't wait til we're all zooming around with these

just having a protected futuristic cyberpunk city and tethered jet suits would be a MONEY amusement ride

I like the drone building footage 😉 Yeah we need more motor and battery technology give it a few years im sure we can get there.

They should use this with a high voltage wire when training on the tether, would save a load of fuel and emissions.

The Hacksmith and his team from Canada were trying to create an electric jet suit years ago as well but they failed at the cost. They wanted to use the "Schubler electric ducted fans - EDF" that were shown in this video and which are used by Gravity as well now. Great to see that the Hacksmith was on the righ track and the technology is now coming together.

Things are moving VERY FAST in this Field..good luck to all involved.

If they could make it quieter that would be huge because one of the current biggest disadvantages is noise level

Love to see one fly across the English channel from England to France.

Try powering that electric jetsuit off of a disc with magnets on an alternator with more magnets to repell the magnets on the disc and spin it.

This flight works close to what it does in my dreams. Put me in coach. Literally lucid dreaming this for my whole life. Nobody's going to be better than me. Think about it.

Nice idea for commando's dropping from planes. Instead of slow and vulnerable decent on parachutes, just a fast boost to slow down the last meters before hitting the ground.

You crack a cell your going down in flames MR!

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The many times more power of superconducting motors does not come from higher efficiency. Efficiency is above 90% in all cases anyway. Advantage of no electrical resistance is high amps which means high magnetic field. The motors are strong for a given diameter and therefore mass which also additionally helps a little in flying operations.

Raises the question

I understand the limitations of batteries, they've made great strides recently and will continue to do so. Excellent video friend, I'm looking forward to more of the same!

Awesome I want one😎

Figured I'd be watching a video about the most impractical thing ever. Discovered that I was not wrong.

High performance batteries are 3.2kg per kw currently(the likes of freefly alta X drone batteries).This thing is 96kwh. With 22.4kg battery pack you'd have 7kwh. At full throttle this machine would use 1.6kw per minute(96kw per hour/60). That is 4 minutes 20 seconds of full throttle. With 80% average you can be getting into the 5minute territory.

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What if you add small wind turbine to the suit? That way as the suit drains one battery pack the backup would get charged. Then when the first pack is low it switches to the backup. Then the primary would get charged. You could possibly fly for as long as you want. The only problem is how quickly can the batteries be charged.

bro we're not even done making the first jetpack period, let's give it a little time before going all electric

If they use a tether to train why not skip the battery altogether and let the tether also run an electric power cable and plug into the wall? It seems it could work like those water flyboards that are tethered to a boat. Thanks for posting

As someone that flys turbine jets. They do flame out unexpectedly at times. I would think a electric jetpack would be safer but it would need a jump in battery technology to work.

Use the wind-turbine principle (converting mechanical energy into electrical energy). As the blades spin, it produces electricity to charge the batteries. That's what the alternator in a Car engine does; the engine spins the alternator, which generates electricity to charge the Car battery.

It will be more use if they remove the thrusters from the hand. They ould palce it on the side of the back pack and can be controlled through legs to feet. So the hand can be of more use.

50 years and still waiting for a jet pack, the closest I've got is a DJI drone cheers.

A capacitor/battery hybrid might work if you turn on the capacitors at the same time the batteries are incurring the most resistance

1.8 minutes flight time .... well ... at least you can put on a show. Thats pretty much the only application for this - shows and short-term fun.

The most efficient way to get in the air is to jump. However, these jetpack are admittedly more impressive. I am sure, given enough time, good flight times will be achieved eventually.

When I watch the flies circling my room all day it makes me wonder what type of batteries they are using.

Electric Tech is about to take off lol pun intended, Solid State Batteries, Graphene Batteries, and Nuclear Diamond Batteries! Horse Power and Flight time will drastically increase!👍

Looks like a crazy excuse to create a miniature Nuke power source.

As long as you don't need to scratch your nose (or anything else), they're great!

FINALLY we have jetpacks. What took so long?

these jetpacks should be part of an armored suit, a one-piece suit impenetrable for bullets. Otherwise the soldiers will risk too much while flying away and getting bullets in their backs, and limbs. I am not even talking about some energy shield or at least active protection (like on tanks) to intercept approaching projectiles. I like Speaking practice and talking with my students about futuristic ideas.

I wonder if any fuel cell tech is small and powerful enough so that you can maybe have Hydrogen, Gas or something else to generate power for the system. Is a hybrid solution like building a micro turbine to generate power for the rest of the suite not a solution maybe?

conceptually its here 15 sec flight time isnt alot but its a start, but will be epic once its in fruition. so many applications, already i have seen vids of search and rescue, rapid first aid, boarding parties, having an electric motor will also be so much quieter, can do more stealthier missions plus night missions too, wont have to worry about afterburners literally lighting you up at night wonder if pilot weight might also affect flight time as well, heavier the person is, harder the motor has to compensate

I see running stilts and jump jets in the future

I love it.

I really love this technology it has many useful things that can be done with it if they could get the kerosine jet pack to actually run up to a half hour to an hour but every time you guys improve this stuff you are proving that gravity does not exist that’s what I think is so neat about this it’s so simple to understand why gravity does not exist with this technology

When’s this coming to the store?

That's awesome and hopefully opening new horizon for flying safely

for electric you could also attach it to a small frame with wheels

Advanced lithium Batts with 4x storage such as the new catl Batts are almost online in china for cherry autos,wich will certainly advance yearly,before superconducting motors become available.Once the two technologies are coupled,an all electric jetsuit will be possible with range,speed,and size reduction

That must be tough on the arms and hands.

I would have liked to hear the difference between the electric version and the original.

bro be taking no walking on grass to a whole new level

when scientists create a portable fusion reactor, we can fly to others continents

The limited flight time is not the problem with either the fuel or electric-powered version. It's the fact that your hands are not your own for the entirety of the flight.

Will it be very tired to use two arms to support all your body weight during the whole flight?

I think they should invent some wearable shock absorbing boots for landings also... Any unexpected drops would eventually damage a pilots spine and leg joints

Maybe they could design an electric fan with a hollow axle that you could put your hand through. This would allow a larger fan (higher efficiency) and reduce the number of fans. I wonder if fuel cells have the same voltage slump problem and if they have sufficient responsiveness for this application.

a hybrid suit might work , where a small engine is acting as the generator to recharge the batteries

combine the 2, small kerozen jet pack on the back that is monted with a generator and supercap, that can drive the electric jet fan on the arms

That suit is obsolete before it is finished, The version we end up with needs to be stood on like the Green Goblin so you can hold a weapon in your hands. This present suit is as clumsy as the James Bond flying suit in Thunderball.

It will always be the battery that limits the jet suit...........you still have the weight of the battery to be carried once it is exhausted.......in the kerosene model the fuel is used up and the weight is reduced.

They were supposed to develop super conductors that don't need to be super cold decades ago! We need those...

I wonder if gravity inc is looking into graphine batteries or any other types of battery technologies ?

"A tether to the pilot could also be used for power" ... I hope this would just be for training as there are so many chances for injury/death outside of that. Flying around at roughly 80mph while tethered to something is a no-go for me.

Have the engineers considered torroidal propellors?

Solid state batteries, help us

Traditional get pack !!

Getting closer to an ironman suit

Toroidal blades would improve thrust efficiency and noise emissions

Schübeler fans are the best 👌

Make shoes or boots version of Jetpack as well like the Ironman does.

Okay, the next thing is learning to compound a battery for more energy.

I want to commute to work with a jet suit.

“There real life guys” made a flying bath tub 4 years ago and out fire fire longer than 5 minutes.. and Jlaser built a fight suit out of his garage with off the shelf stuff

What about kinetic energy be added.

if i wee the one who designe this i would push for a quick release for the arm jets that has their own gyro so that the pilot can defend themselves if they are cornenered and a control system if said armjets were deployed that uses neck movement as control inpts

Chem-fuel engines are hazard at melee range at anything. For a man-sute gear, the electric can also rid of liquid-mass storage volume, while only partiional dry-mass weight increase. With more powerful turbine engines batteres + pulse static/plasma afterbuns.

And even after years of research and improvements, absentmindedly scratching your nose in flight is still fatal.

CATLs new battery could be useful for this.

I doubt it will be possible to reduce the weight\power of the engines much more. Maybe, but with staggering increase in price. The potential of this transport will be developed thanks to the development of batteries, not engines.

Design is amazing, but as technology gets more advanced ur going to have to shrink the fans and have them be more powerful, but for now great

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There may be a niche application for an electric jet pack even if one has only 2minutes of flight time. That may be enough to allow soldiers to fly over a mine field , river, or swamp. For example if it only takes a minute to fly over a river a soldier could fly over the river land, and then have enough juice left in the battery to fly back over the river. Also, cargo UAVs could fly over extra batteries as well if needed or even ferry back the jet packs for more soldiers to use them to fly over the obstacle to reinforce the first wave. Breeching minefields is a big problem in Ukraine. Also, crossing the Dnieper and the swamps near it river. While kerosene jet packs could be used for this, it might be best to do this in the cover of night since the Russians have limited night vision capability but the plumes from the kerosene jetpacks might give them away. But an electric jet pack would not have a tell tale plume. And as far as its noise, that could be masked by flying UAVs around them so as to create other noise sources. So these might be used to get say a ten man team across a minefield of river that then could be used to gain a foothold on the other side that then could be reinforced by other waves.

Yoooooo Joe!!!! 🪖

Beginning of a gundam suit 🤣.

16KW is at least 300 amps then X 6 = 5 seconds maximum, not enough cells in parallel on this model even with best cells avail.? 30amps per cell =180 then times 12 or 13 stacked for 48v.

it would work much better with VasyFan EDF's, I also bought an edf from VasyFan and I think it is much more efficient than Schubler .

The electric one needs a built in alternator.. right?

Wait for the Dyson model.

maybe super capacitors could buffer the lag

Maybe try toroidal propellers to double your power and efficiency?

How much is going to cost ?

So in short, we are still not on the level where it could be a consumer product. After all, that's what we want for coming here.

The only application for these gizmos is "human missile"

You are forgetting that full size jet engines on airplanes produce thousands of times more emissions lol

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How do you fire a weapon?

Can I buy this? Where??

Man, I really eish I was an enginner rn. Would love to find a way way to extend the battery life as much as possible.