V/STOL Concepts & Developed Aircraft, A Historic Report, Vol. 1 Wendell Moore flying the pressurized hose version of the first jetpack, 1957. Notice the Y split and the centering over the body side center line. Support for lifting the body is padded loops under the arm pits, independently swiveling nozzles that have counterweight stabilization built […]
This is quite a gem of a report. At first blush it looks as though is is going in another direction, Zero G maneuvering belts. Orbital space is cool, but not directly applicable to earthbound, aka one G flight, or so we thought. This report actually extends the previous work, theory and proofs of tethered […]
These images come from the NASA History website for work done at the Langley Research Center. The images, the work, everything is f’ing awesome. The amazing repository of tens of thousands of photos can be found here at the Langley History Section of NASA CGRIS website. Above and beyond the sheer awesomeness of the photos […]
Description of the pressurized gas testing and the trailing hose.
One of the more intriguing civilian markets being considered by the rocket industry is sports. They also agree that the personal rockets, they call their’s the “AeroPAK” — will find wide use in rescue work, fire fighting, construction, transportation and sports.
This is the groundbreaking research, paid for by the US government and published more than fifty years ago that lead to numerous developments. The existence of these movies, images, reports keeps open the hydro sport field and prevents anyone from claiming ownership and attempting to establish a monopoly. The pilot seated in the chair is […]
Some excerpts from Stability and Control Study of a Small Rocket Lift Device. What is particularly clear are the discussions of the center of gravity and the relation to the nozzles. This is just one of many instances in discussing and detailing and defining the center of gravity in relation to the thrust nozzles of […]
June 16, 1958 Just 25 years after Buck Rogers first-streaked across the country’s comic pages propelled by his personal rocket belt, the thing has actually been invented by three young scientists in Denville, N.J. They call it a Jump Belt, which sounds as handy as an automatic clutch; but you don’t just run one through […]
Bel Aerosystems started company-sponsored exploratory work on the concept, under Moore’s direction, in 1957 after becoming aware of the U.S. Army’s (TRECOM) interest in individual aerial mobility. A tethered system was used with pressurized nitrogen gas as the rocket propellant during the initial efforts.