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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. These individual lift devices, as they were blandly labeled by the government men who financed much of their development, answered man's desire to simply step outside and take flight. No runways, no wings, no pilot's license were required. Soaring through the air with the wind in your face and landing anyplace there was room to stand--could this be done? Yes, it could be, and it was. But the jet pack was perhaps the most overpromised technology of all time. From the rocket belt to the jet belt to the flying platform and all the way to Yves Rossy's 21st-century free flights using a jet-powered wing, this book profiles the inventors and pilots, the hucksters and cheats, the businessmen and soldiers who were involved with these machines. And it finally tells a great American story of a technology whose promise may, one day, yet come to fruition.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1613744307
ISBN-13
9781613744307
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164687665

Product Key Features

Book Title
Great American Jet Pack : the Quest for the Ultimate Individual Lift Device
Author
Steve Lehto
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Engineering (General), Aviation / General, Inventions, General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science, History
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Tl717.5.L44 2013
Reviews
"While personal-flight prototypes edge from pipe dream to purchase order, this well-documented history provides a satisfying substitution." - Kirkus Reviews, "While personal-flight prototypes edge from pipe dream to purchase order, this well-documented history provides a satisfying substitution." Kirkus Reviews, "The story of Chrysler's lengthy involvement with turbine power is related with enthusiasm and in fascinating detail." - Globe and Mail, "Compelling and strongly researched. . . . An excellent history." - Hemmings Classic Car , on Chrysler's Turbine Car, "While personal-flight prototypes edge from pipe dream to purchase order, this well-documented history provides a satisfying substitution." -- Kirkus Reviews, "A meticulously researched, sometimes sobering, always fascinating account of the coolest car ever to come out of Detroit-and why you can't buy it. At a time of skyrocketing gasoline prices and gas-electric hybrids, the world would do well to consider Lehto's loving history of the alternative-fuel engine that could run on peanuts-literally-and the car that looked good doing it. Chrysler's Turbine Car demonstrates that the best ideas don't always need to be developed; sometimes they only need to be rediscovered." -Karen Dionne, author of Freezing Point, "[A] fascinating example of engineering and product development. . . . Motorheads will love it." - Library Journal
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-039337
Dewey Decimal
629.1/4
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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