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Production company's first commercial backpack to fly successfully went public
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Company New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin, Martin Aircraft, успешно published on the Australian Stock Exchange and gathered for an IPO of 100 million Australian dollars. The company promotes the world's first commercial backpack to fly Martin Jetpack .
Although knapsack and is called «jetpack» (reactive), it works on chetyrёhklapannom petrol engine capacity of 200 horsepower, which rotates the two tunnel propellers. Satchel able to stay aloft for up to 30 minutes to travel at speeds up to 74 km / h, climb to 1500 meters in height and lift up to 120 kg of payload. The cost of the device is 225,000 Australian dollars (200,000 USD).
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The idea of creating a knapsack Martin caught fire as early as 1981. As he says, he did not expect quick success. In 50-60 years of the last century, the United States financed the development of these backpacks for military purposes, but it never reached. And Martin worked on his knapsack in the garage in the evenings after work.
Nevertheless, he managed to build a successful prototype. In 2004, after the demonstration video on the Internet, which rises into the air pack his wife, drew attention to the project founder of one of New Zealand's venture capital funds, which was the first investor in startups. On the eve of IPO Martin has received funding from the Chinese company Kuang-Chi Science totaling $ 50 million.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/246348/
