Amazing Stories, Volume 3, Number 5, August 1928, depicting a fictional character flying with a jetpack.Rocket Belt pilot Dan Schlund at the 2005 Melbourne Show.
(aviation) A piece of equipment that may be strapped to a person’s back and generate vertical thrust by a downward discharge of jet fluid, thereby rendering the person capable of flight.
(aviation): In formal use, one most often speaks or writes of using a jet pack; however, in informal use, it is not uncommon to hear of flying or riding a jet pack.
