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

Inventors once promised us we'd all be flying with jet packs 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 rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lehto, Steve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2013.
Temas:
Personal propulsion units > United States > History.
Aeronautical engineers > United States > Biography.
Ingénieurs en aéronautique > États-Unis > Biographies.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.
Aeronautical engineers
Personal propulsion units
United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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