It's NOT the JETPACK I was PROMISED, but it's a good start.

Manufacturers Bring Flying Cars Closer to Reality With Prototypes | Video | TheBlaze.com:

There are two different 'flying car' prototypes in the article with a video for each. People have been playing around with the idea since the 1930s with little progress. What people want is a car that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. This is pretty much impossible because you have to carry around the car parts when you fly and you don't have the space for enough rotor/prop to create lift. Most flying cars have been cars that bolted into a wings-and-tail assembly. You end up with a crappy car and a crappy plane. It's far, far cheaper and safer to have a car waiting at the destination you fly to.

The first one is a car/plane that has the folded wings on the side of the car. If someone hits you in a parking lot, your $287,000 flying car can be ruined. The second one is an autogyro. It has a rotor instead of wings but can't take off vertically (there are two videos I've seen for it and neither show this, making you believe it's capable of vertical takeoff and landing). The autogyro itself looks like a good design and would be my choice for insanely expensive flying-car monstrosity. The company is marketing the autogyro for police and doctors working in an island-hopping practice. I'd want to see takeoff and landing footage before I decided it was practical.

It is NOT, however, a jetpack. Keep working.

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