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The Rocketbelt Caper

2012-08-07 True Crime
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Release : 2012-08-07
Genre : True Crime
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Book Synopsis The Rocketbelt Caper by : Paul Brown

Download or read book The Rocketbelt Caper written by Paul Brown. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A True Tale of Invention, Obsession and Murder. When three men set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000 shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder.

Sins Dyed in Blood

2015-08-14 History
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Release : 2015-08-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sins Dyed in Blood by : Paul Brown

Download or read book Sins Dyed in Blood written by Paul Brown. This book was released on 2015-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Robinson was a British pirate who sailed with Blackbeard during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 1700s. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Robinson crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean and the Americas. In 1718, he was captured and sentenced to death by hanging in Charleston, South Carolina. But was he really a murderous sea-robber, and did he deserve his brutal fate?

The Great American Jet Pack

2013-05-01 Science
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Release : 2013-05-01
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Great American Jet Pack by : Steve Lehto

Download or read book The Great American Jet Pack written by Steve Lehto. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the remarkable history of a certain kind of flying machine—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 historical account delves into the technology that made these devices possible and the reasons why they never became commercial successes on a mass scale. 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. But the history of the jet pack did not follow its expected trajectory and the devices that were thought to become as commonplace as cars have instead become one of the most overpromised technologies of all time. This fascinating account profiles the inventors and pilots, the hucksters and cheats, and the businessmen and soldiers who were involved with the machines, and it tells a great American story of a technology whose promise may yet, one day, come to fruition.

From A Blood-Red Sea: The Last Voyage of Daniel Collins

2017-03-10 History
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Release : 2017-03-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis From A Blood-Red Sea: The Last Voyage of Daniel Collins by : Paul Brown

Download or read book From A Blood-Red Sea: The Last Voyage of Daniel Collins written by Paul Brown. This book was released on 2017-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jetpack Dreams

2008-10-28 Science
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Release : 2008-10-28
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 741/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jetpack Dreams by : Mac Montandon

Download or read book Jetpack Dreams written by Mac Montandon. This book was released on 2008-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines, the jetpack. While exploring our collective fascination with flight, the tale takes readers from the first flimsy, shoulder-mounted wings to Bill Suitor's 1984 Olympic flight in front of billions of viewers around the world; from a gruesome jetpack-driven murder in Houston in the mid-1990s to the secret laboratories and government facilities of today. Journalist Mac Montandon also explores Hollywood's fascination with the subject, from the 1949 serial King of the Rocket Men to Lost in Space, The Jetsons and The Rocketeer to the cultural jetpack phenomenon represented by Buck Rogers, James Bond, and Boba Fett. He travels the world to meet jetpack enthusiasts who are readying their own personal flying machines for takeoff. Ultimately, it's the search for an answer to 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?

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