Kicker: Jet-setters in the United Arab Emirates

AUDIO: [Jet pack]

NICK EICHER, HOST: Hear that?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s really loud!

EICHER: Yeah, jet engines are like that! But there are no aircraft here. Just engine and pilot. It was like a scene from Iron Man shot in Dubai, only Tony Stark wasn’t there.

But there were a bunch of rich guys. This is no cheap hobby: strapping jets to themselves, racing just a few feet above the water around Dubai Marina. It was the world’s first-ever jet suit race.

These things are incredible. 15-hundred horsepower, max speed 80 miles per hour.

Issa Kalfon took first place.

ISSA KALFON: Everything's hot, it's running, the engines are screaming at you, and it is that whoosh and then it bites in that power is there.

What goes up must come down. One of the racers drove himself right into the water. But no worries. He was rescued.

No word, though, on the jet-suit that became a wet-suit.

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