Private Jetpacks: Closer Than Ever!
Apr. 29th, 2009 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beamjockeyUsing a jet engine, rather than a rocket, is one solution to extending the range of rocket-belt-like devices. Bell Aerosystems and Williams collaborated on a Bell Jet Belt, but it hasn't flown for nearly four decades. Modern cruise missiles descended from the compact engine Williams developed.
It's much harder to duplicate a jet belt than a rocket belt. (For one thing, governments don't like cruise missile engines to be for sale.) Nevertheless, Richard Brown (among others) in the UK has been persevering. He's built a unique engine of his own design.
Mr. Brown has just posted video of his flight tests, which employ a multi-axis rig that limits the trouble he can get into.
Mr. Brown has also written a good account of his device's development.
It's much harder to duplicate a jet belt than a rocket belt. (For one thing, governments don't like cruise missile engines to be for sale.) Nevertheless, Richard Brown (among others) in the UK has been persevering. He's built a unique engine of his own design.
Mr. Brown has just posted video of his flight tests, which employ a multi-axis rig that limits the trouble he can get into.
Mr. Brown has also written a good account of his device's development.
