In the past few weeks it was great to see that Christchurch has seen continued progess in the development of the Martin Jet Pack. This is a highly innovative world leading example of how brillant our local engineers are. The really clever bit is how they have brought together fan technology with some great composites. I have had the pleasure of seeing it all in action too. 

 

Recently we also had the launch of New Zealand's first ever rocket by RocketLabs which is owned by local personality Mark Rocket - and one of the smartest people in New Zealand, Auckland based Peter Beck. And quite recently a team of aspiring University of Canterbury engineering students successively launched a small rocket. No surprises then that my 7 year old son told me this week that he wanted to be a Rocket Man when he grows up. Lucky it seems we live in the right place to do so!