The pilot who tested the rocket-propelled backpack told Popular Science magazine in 1969 that the machine made him “feel safer than I do driving the family car in traffic.”
At the time, it was believed that such transportation means was imminent. But a mass-market model never managed to fly.
![photo_xalwaysnext[1].jpg](http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/xxx/photo_xalwaysnext%5B1%5D.jpg)
From Times Magazine, via Styleborg.