Everyone knows man can’t fly. But rocketpack enthusiast Gerard Martowlis is doing it anyway. This unassuming man from Linden, N.J. has already gotten off the ground with his own flying machine.

“They all said that we are going to have them by the year 2000, and that’s come and gone. So I started building my own.”
Watch a documentary portrait of this garage-tinkerer-turned-rocketeer as he explains his desire to fly.