James Bond-Style Jet Packs Finally Exist, and They’re Immensely Underwhelming

Take a second to imagine how flippin’ cool it’d be to own your own jet pack. You’d get to live out all your Iron Man/James Bond fantasies without the obstacle of an annoying moral compass that makes you help people and save the world. Oh, the freedom!

Two men have finally made those glorious dreams a reality. David Mayman, a former commercial pilot, and Nelson Tyler —an inventor and product developer who worked on The Spy Who Loved Me — have created the world’s first jet packs designed to be carried on the pilot’s back with relative ease. The duo are hoping to sell their invention to the public by 2019 for roughly $300,000.

In the meantime, they’ve taken to testing the pack out over the River Thames in London, and we have to say…the video doesn’t exactly make it seem as cool as it should. It’s just so anticlimactic. No dips, swerves, donuts…nothing. Just a slow, steady pace and a horrible high-pitched screeching noise. Unless they make these packs able to handle a few sweet aerial flips, we’ll be hanging on to our $300K.

Judge for yourself: