Company founder Glenn Martin created the design over 30 years of night and weekend work in his garage.

“Commercial Jetpacks are no longer the domain of science fiction,” the company’s Managing Director and CEO, Peter Coker, said in a statement. “The dream of Glenn Martin to create a commercial Jetpack is about to be realised.”

The company must still work out regulatory and insurance issues, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper noted.

And to be fair, plenty of inventors and companies have promised jetpacks, flying cars, robot maids and all the accoutrements of the future, with little to show for it.

Martin, however, is undaunted.