Seems obvious right? Water, sport, try to float the user face up? Not so obvious to our competition! We saw the first Jetlev machine and thought that the biggest flaw was that it floated you face down in the water. The first lessons in fact, were teaching you how to roll on your back to […]
From the Jetlev.com website courtesy of the Wayback Machine: TRIAL PRODUCTION PROGRAM UPDATE: We are making excellent progress in our trial production program, which we expect to complete by April 2010. Following certification, we’ll begin serial production and hope to begin limited shipments by the end of June 2010. PRODUCT SNEAK PREVIEW: Dubai Boat Show, […]
Of course we were amped when we first saw the YouTube video in 2009. We scoured the net for any news and where we could try and fly it. We even took a trip to Dubai to try and find it and see it at Pearl Watercraft. Now there were two websites sort of selling […]
With the design for the R200 and carbon fiber jetpack relatively worked out, Ray and Frazier return to Florida. MS Watersports has been granted distribution rights to Europe and Russia, Jetlev LLC for the rest of the world. Ray stills sees room (rightly so) for improvement in the design of the system. He stops sales […]
The alloy frame was welded and anodized in September. the first floatation system was fabricated and attached directly to the frame as per the working plan. Felt like too much forward visual mass.
Working out the system for keeping the pilots face out of the water when waiting or falling in, while allowing arm movement and control when in the air.
When we first saw Ray Li’s Jetlev on YouTube in 2009, it hit like a lightning bolt. We wanted to try this so bad. Finally we could fly without the constant presence of crashing into hard ground, without rocket fuel, without the noise. But the cost was 135,000 dollars, the cost of a small […]
Big German Boat Show. Limelight baby. The jetpack makes its debut. The metallic super pod makes its debut. The jetpack is up near the ceiling. The price is a staggering 136,000 USD. The video of the flight becomes a YouTube sensation. From the Jetlev website in February 2009, sourced from the WayBackMachine Jetlev Sports Inc. […]
Frazier has been working his ass off in Germany to get the project going. The torpedo boat turned out to be a disaster, too small, too cute, just plain useless. Turns out all of those big jet skis companies were on the right track with their million dollar research budgets and sales. Lars brings Ray […]
Lars has Frazier fly over to Germany to see his factory. Turns out it is not a factory so much as a warehouse with used jet skis in it. But Lars has a good network of connections and convinces Frazier to stay in Germany and tell Ray how amazing his operation is. Lars is an […]