Who wants to be a Rocketeer????

[Story]

Jet Packs Finally On Sale: How to Buy Your Rocket Belt
The good news: Not one, but two companies are selling jet packs. The bad news: The tech has a long way to go.
By Erik Sofge
Published in the July 2007 issue.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4217989.html

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Is Jennifer Connelly involved somehow?

 

[Mike K.]

Jet Packs Finally On Sale: How to Buy Your Rocket Belt
The good news: Not one, but two companies are selling jet packs. The bad news: The tech has a long way to go.
By Erik Sofge
Published in the July 2007 issue.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4217989.html

I've thought about simply inverting my SCUBA tank and knocking off the valve stem. Perhaps fins could be used for flight control.

 

[PADDY]

Ha-Ha!! Took the words right out of my mouth!!

Is Jennifer Connelly involved somehow?

Hear-Hear Tony!! my thoughts exactly! Wasn't she an absolute dish in that movie, my heart skipped a beat every time the camera was on her.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Is Jennifer Connelly involved somehow?

I believe she's married to her agent/manager.


Lee
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And I SO wanted her!

 

[AlanC]

I'm afraid the jetpack would end up more like this...

Jennifer Connelly is married to Paul Bettany:

 

[MrBern]

Now its REALLY here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/science/29jetpack.html

Buck Rogers and James Bond used jetpacks, and since the 1960s, several real jetpack designs have been built from metal, plastic and propellant. None has flown more than a minute. Mr. Martin’s machines can run for 30 minutes.

"That's a little anticlimatic," said Bob Oliver, a retired airline pilot from Alamo, California. But Joseph Tevaarwerk , who helped develop the craft's engine, noted that the world's first airplane flight was only about 12 seconds long. And he added "would you have wanted to be there when the Wright brothers launched?"

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[Story]

But what of...

[cue ominous music]...the Mysterious Flying Men of Mexico City???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SghPp6o26KM

http://www.rense.com/general66/humsan.htm

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

It would be hilarious to come into work that way. lol