Video for new book, Jetpack Dreams
Here's the video for Mac Montandon's new book about the history of jetpacks, Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was. It's a delightful and engrossing story of the quest for one of humankind's greatest technological fantasies —- to strap on a device and fly like a bird.
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What's up with the naked man just after the 2:00 mark?
Where's MY flying car!
If he finds them, I hope he brings one back for me.
Fine, but that's not Buck Rogers on the cover the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories.
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From the contents page:
Our Cover this month depicts a scene from the first installment in this issue of the story entitled THE SKYLARK OF SPACE by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, in which the scientist, who has discovered a chemical substance for the liberation of intra-atomic energy, is making his initial tests, preparatory to his interplanetary flight by means of this liberated energy, which makes possible his interstellar space-flyer.
Right, but he didn't say that was Buck on the cover, only that he was in that issue.
Looks like a great book. I always and still want my own jetpack.
Right, he didn't specifically say it, but saying jetpacks started with Buck Rogers in that issue and showing the cover with the flying man reinforces the common misunderstanding of exactly who is on that cover.