A man with a jetpack circled the Statue of Liberty in New York. VIDEO

In New York, the first official flight of a jetpack, the so-called jetpack, was conducted with a man as a pilot. The flight in the area of ​​the Statue of Liberty was agreed upon with the Federal Office of the USA and the Coast Guard.

In the JB-9 jet pack, the lift force is provided by a pair of turbojet engines. According to the portal N + 1technical details about the design of the device is not reported.

It is assumed that the jetpack, presented by JetPack Aviation, may be in the air for more than four and a half minutes.

According to the pilot of the jetpack and co-founder of the company David Meyman, JetPack Aviation continues to develop personal aircraft.

In the future, the project team intends to find a commercial application of the developed technology. On the timing of production and the possible price of the jet pack is not reported.

In June 2015, another company, Martin Aircraft, announced the launch of mass production of jetpacks, but their Personal Jetpack model is much larger than the JB-9. The Personal Jetpack will be available in 2016.

In early November, the extremes of Yves Rossi and Vins Refett on a jet-winged jetpack Jetman Dubai flew over Dubai near the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380.