# Personal Flight Vehicles Glenn Martin's Jetpack By Going Like Sixty | Published 2008-07-30 | Tech Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/jetpack-rocketpack-revealed-glenn-martin References: [core77](http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/rocket_man_10656.asp) Jetpack travel is just around the corner, or so says Glenn Martin from New Zealand. Martin is getting a lot of press for a flight that lasted a few seconds and only got him a few feet off the ground. He needs to get PR lessons from Virgin Galactic. When Sir Richard Branson rolls out a spacecraft launcher, it actually works. Glenn has sold some of his craft for $100,000. Notice the “training wheels.” ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 5.1/10 - Popularity: 53% | Activity: 93% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 70% men, 30% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Tech](https://www.trendhunter.com/tech) > [Gadgets](https://www.trendhunter.com/gadgets) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Personal Flight Vehicles:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop advanced prototypes with longer flight durations and higher altitudes. - **Jetpack Travel:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create more efficient jetpack designs for practical and affordable personal air transportation. - **Spacecraft Launchers:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Improve spacecraft launch technologies for safe, reliable, and accessible commercial space travel. ### Who This Affects Most - **Aerospace:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Strengthen the development of personal flight vehicles and spacecraft launchers to revolutionize air and space travel. - **Emerging Technologies:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Foster advancements in jetpack travel and personal flight vehicles through cutting-edge technologies and materials. - **Transportation:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Incorporate personal flight vehicles as a new mode of transportation to address congestion and travel limitations. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Novel Aerial Vehicles](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/star-walkers.md) - [Consumer-Driven Aircrafts](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/personal-evtol-aircraft.md) - [Epochal Electric VTOLs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/epochal-electric-vtol.md) - [Easily Piloted Electric VTOLs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/electric-vtols.md) - [Underwater Jetpack Designs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/kikfin.md) - [Zero-Emission Flying Saucers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/zeva-zero.md) - [Powerfully Propelled VTOL Drones](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/vtol-drone.md) - [Road-Legal Flying Vehicles](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/switchblade-1.md) - [Futuristic Bladeless Planes](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/jetopetra.md)