"The world's only true jetpack" flies around the Statue of Liberty

It’s 2015 and we don’t have proper hoverboards or flying cars, but the folks at Jetpack Aviation have made progress in portable, personal flight technology.

The JB-9 jetpack made its public debut in New York, hovering hundreds of feet in the air, propelled by jet turbine engines.

The company's YouTube video of the flight was posted last week and has more than 400,000 views.

“I’ve been flying it off the public radar for some time,” Jetpack Aviation CEO David Mayman told GizMag, “It was time to bring it out of the closet, so to speak.”

This isn’t the first attempt at jetpacks, one notable effort was the Bell Rocket Belt from the 1960s, which is similar in concept to the jet-propelled pack used in the 1984 Olympics opening ceremony in Los Angeles.

Those packs would get the user airborne, but the controls were cumbersome and you could only manage up to 30 seconds of flight with the necessary expensive fuel, according to GizMag.

The JB-9 is unique in its ability to achieve unassisted vertical takeoffs and landings.

It can achieve up to 10 minutes of airtime fueled by kerosene, a cheap and safe fuel easily available to the average person.

Those of you who want one of these will have to wait, as the company has no current plans to make these commercial.

They do intend to continue research and development in the hopes of eventual commercialization, according to a news release on the company site.