Book

Lehto, Steve.

The great American jet pack : the quest for the ultimate individual lift device / Steve Lehto.

First edition.

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2013]

©2013

234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"For a few decades, jet packs seemed to be everywhere: on Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space, Thunderball, and even the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics. Inventors promised we'd all be flying with them now, enabling us to zoom around effortlessly in the sky and getting us to work without traffic jams and trains. What happened to the jet pack? In 'The Great American Jet Pack, ' Steve Lehto gives us the definitive history of this and related devices, explaining how the technology arose, how it works, and why we don't have them in our garages today."--Publisher description.

Personal propulsion units -- United States -- History.

Aeronautical engineers -- United States -- Biography.

Biographies.

Great American jetpack

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.

Introduction -- Flying shoes and hovering platforms -- The Hiller and de Lackner flying platforms -- The age of man rockets -- The quest for the rocket belt -- Wendell F. Moore and the Bell rocket belt -- The rocket belt flies -- The Bell rocket men -- The Sud Ludion and the Pogo -- William P. Suitor: rocket man -- The jet flying belt -- The WASP -- The WASP get kinesthetic control: the WASP II -- The rocket belt returns -- The Pretty Bird saga -- Civilian rocket belts -- The modern rocket belt in the public eye -- Ducted fan lift devices -- Hal Graham -- Jetlev -- Jetman: Yves Rossy -- When will we have jet packs? -- Epilogue: where are they today?

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