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9780306818349

Jetpack Dreams : One Man's up and down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was

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  • ISBN13:

    9780306818349

  • ISBN10:

    0306818345

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-12-22
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $16.95

Summary

Jetpack Dreamschronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines: the jetpack. Fueled by a fascination and lifelong obsession with the power of flight, journalist Mac Montandon goes on a vastly entertaining search of the elusive invention. He examines the jetpack's inspiration from the first shoulder-mounted wings to Bill Suitor's 1984 Olympic flight, even uncovering a gruesome jetpack-related murder in Houston. From the earliest days of the 'pack to its enduring role in popular culturewith Buck Rogers, James Bond, Boba FettMontandon seeks to answer two simple questions: Where is the jetpack that was promised to him, and to all of us, years ago? And if it's out there, can he catch a ride?

Author Biography

Mac Montandon is the editor of Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader. He has written for the New York Times, Radar, Salon.com, and Interview. He lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

The Voluptuous Panic, Part Ip. 1
The Past Is Prologue?p. 15
Shuffling Off to Buffalo; or, The Cruel Truth about Lift over Dragp. 65
Out of This Worldp. 107
South of the Border, North of the Futurep. 151
Houston, We Have Another Problemp. 185
The Voluptuous Panic, Part IIp. 209
Epiloguep. 237
Acknowledgmentsp. 249
Indexp. 251
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