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Boeing has undertaken the GoFly Challenge, which calls on all inventors and doers to make human flight a reality by building the world’s first personal flying device for anyone, anywhere. Over the next two years, teams will compete to win $2,000,000 in prizes, creating revolutionary technology and accessing the top minds in aerospace. The device must be safe, useful, and thrilling, but the design and function of the device is up to teams, which will have access to the top names in aerospace an

Competition To Develop A Working Jetpack Carries A $2 Million Prize

The jetpack has been something of a "Holy Grail" of aviation. But developing a practical, working jetpack has also been an engineering challenge that has yet to be solved.

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"The GoFly Prize competition aligns with our company's goals of inspiring people across the globe and changing the world through aerospace innovations... We're Excited to see how the visionaries of the future will take on this ambitious and exciting challenge." Source: Greg Hyslop, Boeing's chief technical officer, chatting about their involvment in the GoFly Challenge, which calls on all inventors and doers to make human flight a reality by building the world’s first personal flying device for anyone, anywhere. Over the next two years, teams will compete to win $2,000,000 in prizes, creating revolutionary technology and accessing the top minds in aerospace.