In article <1068n1v$2aeep$
1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <
michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28/07/2025 11.05, James Nicoll wrote:
Jumping Jet Packs! Five Stories From the Golden Age of Personal
Flying Devices
Surely we should all have harness copters by now?
https://reactormag.com/jumping-jet-packs-five-stories-from-the-golden-age-of-personal-flying-devices/
Wings seem pretty harmless to me, compared to the 4000-degree jet exhaust.
Of course, as RAH showed in "The Menace From Earth", blowups^W accidents happen.
There was a book published in 2008 called JETPACK DREAMS about all the
various ideas people had tried to patent or otherwise bring to market,
and how they failed. I somehow got it from SFBC (I guess as one of
those random "science" flyers the stuffed in the envelope with the
newsletter) and it was already marked as a remainder, so I guess it
didn't sell well. I gave that book away after I read it, but it's
available in libraries (and apparently electronic form too).
-GAWollman
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