The water is pumped from the sea or lake below, up to the nozzles on the jetpack, giving a 1,900-Newton [430-pounds-of-force] thrust, enough to lift even a fat human of up to 150 kilos [330 pounds].

Dean O’Malley, president of Jetpack America, will appear at 9 p.m. Thursday on the show “Pawn Stars,” in an attempt to sell the water-propelled JetLev jet pack he used for his 26-mile flight ...

Instead, a small vessel is dragged behind the jetpack, pumping water into a long hose attached to the back of the pack. Thus, the Jetlev-Flyer only works near a body of water and is essentially a ...

The Jetlev R200 jetpack is powered by a 200-horsepower engine in a nearby boat that blasts water through a tethered hose to propel the jet pack up. Pilots can use the ‘fly-by-wire’ controls to ...

The water comes via a 33-foot-long, 4-inch-diameter flexible hose connected to a modified personal watercraft. A 225-hp motor at the far end of the hose sends water up to the backpack and out to ...

It looks like a blast, though some skill must be required not to get tangled up in the hose. It hooks up to any personal watercraft with more than 100 horsepower and costs about $6,400 (PWC not ...

The jetpack is powered by a 200-horsepower engine that pumps water through a hose to create the thrust needed for lift-off. This innovative design allows for a smooth and stable flight experience ...

The jetpack is essentially a hose connected to a floating vacuum machine called a pod. The pod, which can be substituted with a Jet Ski, sucks up a large volume of water, which the jetpack uses to ...

A water-powered jetpack may not be new, but it surely is still unique and awesome. And, unlike the Jetlev, this water-powered FlyBoard is actually somewhat affordable.

Not a place to do things by halves, Dubai has equipped some of its firefighters with water-powered jetpacks to help tackle blazes quickly and effectively from pretty much any angle they like.