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  • [ReacTor] Jumping Jet Packs!

    From jdnicoll@jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) to rec.arts.sf.written on Mon Jul 28 12:05:11 2025
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    Jumping Jet Packs! Five Stories From the Golden Age of Personal
    Flying Devices

    Surely we should all have harness copters by now?

    https://reactormag.com/jumping-jet-packs-five-stories-from-the-golden-age-of-personal-flying-devices/
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  • From Michael F. Stemper@michael.stemper@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written on Mon Jul 28 15:37:19 2025
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    On 28/07/2025 11.05, James Nicoll wrote:
    Jumping Jet Packs! Five Stories From the Golden Age of Personal
    Flying Devices

    Surely we should all have harness copters by now?

    https://reactormag.com/jumping-jet-packs-five-stories-from-the-golden-age-of-personal-flying-devices/

    Wings seem pretty harmless to me, compared to the 4000-degree jet exhaust.

    Of course, as RAH showed in "The Menace From Earth", blowups^W accidents happen.
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  • From wollman@wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) to rec.arts.sf.written on Mon Jul 28 20:48:13 2025
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    In article <1068n1v$2aeep$1@dont-email.me>,
    Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 28/07/2025 11.05, James Nicoll wrote:
    Jumping Jet Packs! Five Stories From the Golden Age of Personal
    Flying Devices

    Surely we should all have harness copters by now?

    https://reactormag.com/jumping-jet-packs-five-stories-from-the-golden-age-of-personal-flying-devices/

    Wings seem pretty harmless to me, compared to the 4000-degree jet exhaust.

    Of course, as RAH showed in "The Menace From Earth", blowups^W accidents happen.

    There was a book published in 2008 called JETPACK DREAMS about all the
    various ideas people had tried to patent or otherwise bring to market,
    and how they failed. I somehow got it from SFBC (I guess as one of
    those random "science" flyers the stuffed in the envelope with the
    newsletter) and it was already marked as a remainder, so I guess it
    didn't sell well. I gave that book away after I read it, but it's
    available in libraries (and apparently electronic form too).

    -GAWollman
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