Own the Sky: Jet Pack Dreamers

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Marcus Gillezeau

Ellenor Cox

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BBC Four - Own the Sky: Jet Pack Dreamers

How a lifelong obsession culminated in an attempt to fly the world's first jetpack.

Documentary that chronicles Australian David Mayman's seemingly impossible quest to fulfil his childhood dream to build and fly the world's first jetpack.

How what began as a passion for the tantalising possibilities of jetpacks became an obsession. Shot over ten years, this documentary chronicles Australian David Mayman's seemingly impossible quest to fulfil his childhood dream to build and fly the world’s first jetpack. 

His ambition, which nearly cost him his life and family, culminates in an attempt to make the world's first jetpack flight around the Statue of Liberty.

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