http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/08/itsaflippingjetpack.jpgEvery morning, we wake up knowing that the writers of the '60s, who promised us pill-sized meals and flying cars by the year 2000, had lied to us. But now, a New Zealand-based avionics company has been granted permission to start manned test-flights on the ultimate piece of retro-futurism: the jetpack. The Martin Jetpack, which successfully carried a dummy 5,000 feet above sea level in 2011, has been given a test license by New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority – and inventor Glenn Martin is hopeful that a military version of the device will be ready next year. After that, the ambitious engineer plans to release a general-purpose edition in 2015 and although the price has skyrocketed from $86,000](http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/martin-jetpack-priced-at-86-000-mere-mortals-will-soon-be-able/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget) to around the $200,000 mark, we’d probably pay double that amount just to re-enact that moment from Thunderball.
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