The Bell Rocket Belt in flight. Rocket belt, rocket pack, jet pack, and similar names, are various types of device, usually worn on the back, that use jets of escaping gases to allow the user to fly. The concept of these devices evolved from the 1920s when Buck Rogers, science fiction comic strip hero, used a rocket pack for travel. Jetpack is a computer game published by Software Creations in 1993. ...
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Buck Rogers is a fictional pulp character who first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers, the hero of two novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan published in the magazine Amazing Stories. ...
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Types The jet of gas in the original Bell Rocketbelt was provided by a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket but the jet can also be provided by a turbojet engine, a ducted fan, or other kinds of rockets powered by solid fuel, liquid fuel or compressed gas (usually nitrogen). Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colourless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. ...
Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. ...
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A similar device that uses rotors or propellers is a Backpack helicopter. Artists depiction of a helibackpack with counter-rotating twin rotors A backpack helicopter or helibackpack is a helicopter motor and rotor and controls assembly that can be strapped to a mans back, so that he can walk about on the ground wearing it, and can use it to...
Hydrogen peroxide powered rocket A hydrogen peroxide powered motor is based on the decomposition reaction of hydrogen peroxide. Nearly pure (90% in the Bell Rocket Belt) hydrogen peroxide is used. Pure hydrogen peroxide is relatively stable, but in contact with the catalyst (for example, silver) it decomposes into a mixture of superheated steam and oxygen in less than 1/10 millisecond increasing in volume 5000 times: 2 H2O2 = 2 H2O + O2. The reaction is exothermic, i.e. with liberation of much heat (about 2500 kJ/kg), forming in this case a steam-gas mixture at 740 °C. This hot gas is used exclusively as the reaction mass and is directly led to one or more jet nozzles. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colourless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. ...
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The great disadvantage is the limited operating time. The jet of steam and oxygen from can provide significant thrust from fairly lightweight rockets, but the jet has a reasonably low exhaust velocity and hence a poor specific impulse. A man's carrying capacity before take-off sets the upper bound on weight of propellant that can be used, and so currently such rocket belts can only fly for about 30 seconds. Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a way to describe the efficiency of rocket and jet engines. ...
A more conventional bipropellant could more than double the specific impulse, however, with peroxide while the exhaust is very hot it is much cooler than other propellants that could be used and this greatly reduces the risk of a fire and injury.
In contrast to, for example, jet engines which mainly expel atmospheric air to produce thrust, rocket packs are far simpler to build than devices using turbojets. The classical rocket pack of the construction of Wendell Moore can be prepared in workshop conditions but needs good engineering training and a high level of tool-making craftsmanship. A Pratt and Whitney turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle is tested at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, USA. The tunnel behind the engine muffles noise and allows exhaust to escape. ...
The main faults of the rocket pack is short duration of flight (to 30 seconds), the reasonably high expense of the peroxide propellant and the danger of flying below minimum parachute altitude, and hence without any safety equipment and the sheer difficulty of manually flying such a device. These circumstances limit the sphere of the application of rocket packs to very spectacular public demonstration flights (stunts). Rocket pack flights typically seize the attention of spectators and enjoy great success. For example, a flight was arranged in the course of the opening ceremony of the summer Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles, USA. The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
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The German Flightpack of World War II During World War II, Germany made late-war experiments of strapping two wearable shortened Schmidt pulse jet tubes of low thrust to the body of a pilot. The working principle was the same as the Schmidt-Argus pulse jet that powered the Fieseler Fi 103 flying bomb whereas the size was much smaller. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
A pulse jet engine is a very simple form of internal combustion engine wherein the combustion occurs in pulses and the propulsive effort is a reaction to the rearward flow of hot gasses. ...
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The device was called "Himmelstürmer" (Skystormer) and operated as follows: when the flier ignited both engines simultaneously the tubes began to pulse modulate. The angled rear tube strapped to the flier's back provided both lift and forward thrust while the chest mounted deflector tube of lower thrust maintained a constant upward thrust. This lifted the flier up and forward. By opening the throttle to the rear tube, calculated "jumps" could be made of up to 60 meter (180 ft) at low altitude (under 50 ft, 15 m). The tubes consumed very little fuel but not much could be carried either.
The intended use for this device was for German engineer units to cross minefields, barbed wire obstacles, and bridgeless waters. The device was never intended for troop use, despite a crude depiction of it in that role in the comic book and film The Rocketeer (which was a prop bearing no resemblance to the real device). Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #1 (1988), Comico Comics. ...
At the end of the war this device was handed over to Bell which tested it on a tether out of fear of harm as no test flier was willing to risk his life with the German machine. What became of the device is not known.
The fictional device used by The Rocketeer was a rocket pack that was technically unique (at least in the film adaptation) because it was designed to remain cool. The Himmelsturmer, by comparison, never operated long enough to get extremely hot and both tubes were angled away from the body of the flier. In operation the thrust difference between pulse tubes acted as a push/pull/lift system. Flight time for jumps was in seconds with no lengthy descent time as altitude was minimal. As soon as the throttle was disengaged the device was shut off, a very simple operation and no report of any casualties. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
"German Secret Weapons and Wonder Weapons of World War II", Christof Friedrich, Samisdat Publications, 1976
Turbojets Packs with the turbojet engine work on the traditional kerosene. They have higher efficiency, greater height and a duration of flight of many minutes, but they are complex in construction and very expensive. Only one working model of this pack was made; it underwent flight tests in the 1960s and at present it no longer flies. One report indicates a sighting in 1984 of an anonymous flier in Maryland.[citation needed] Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. ...
Kerosene or paraffin oil (British English, not to be confused with the waxy solid also called paraffin wax or just paraffin) is a colorless flammable hydrocarbon liquid. ...
Fuel efficiency sometimes means the same as thermal efficiency, that is, the efficiency of converting energy contained in a carrier fuel to kinetic energy or work. ...
Practical Applications According to the USA Government, real jetpacks have little practical value due to the limitations of current technology. The United States military, which conducted most jet pack research, has declared that helicopters are far more practical. Many others have worked on devising a functional jet pack, but with limited success. The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ...
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History
The Jump Belt (mostly compressed gas powered)
In 1958 Garry Burdett and Alexander Bohr, engineers of Thiokol Corporation created the "Jump Belt", which they named Project Grasshopper. Thrust was created by high-pressure compressed nitrogen. On the "belt" were fixed two small nozzles, directed vertically downward. The wearer of the "belt" could open a valve, letting out from the nitrogen gas cylinder through the nozzles, in this case it was tossed upward to the height to 7 meters. After leaning forward, it was possible with the aid of the "jump belt"'s thrust to run at 45 to 50 km/h. Then Burdett and Bohr tested a hydrogen peroxide powered version. The "jump belt" was demonstrated by a serviceman in action, but there was no financing, and the matter again did not go to further tests. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ...
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The small size of the canisters is likely the reason why the name usage "-belt" rather than "-pack" became customary in the USA.
Aeropack In 1959 Aerojet General Corporation won a U.S. Army contract to make a jetpack or rocketpack. At the start of 1960 Richard Peoples made his first tethered flight with his Aeropack. Aerojet is a major rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Sacramento, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, VA, Gainesville, VA, and Camden, AK. Their products include a wide range of propulsion, from main engines used on a number of NASA vehicles and ballistic missiles, down to stationkeeping...
Development continues But American servicemen did not lose interest in this type of flight vehicle. Control of transport studies of the U.S. Army Transportation Research Command, TRECOM) assumed that personal jet apparatuses could find the most diverse uses: for reconnaissance, crossing rivers, amphibious landing, access to steep mountain slopes, overcoming minefields, tactical maneuvering, etc. The concept was named Small Rocket Lift Device, SRLD. Mixed reconnaissance patrol of the Polish Home Army and the Soviet Red Army during Operation Tempest, 1944 Reconnaissance is the military term for the active gathering of information about an enemy, or other conditions, by physical observation. ...
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Within the framework of this concept the administration in 1959 concluded with the company Aerojet General a contract to research on the possibility of designing an SRLD, suitable for army purposes. Aerojet came to the conclusion that the version with the engine running on hydrogen peroxide was most suitable. However, it soon became known to the military that engineer Wendell Moore of the company Bell Aerosystems had for several years been carrying out experiments to make a personal jet device. After becoming acquainted with his work, servicemen during August 1960 decided to send an order for Bell Aerosystems to develop an SLRD. Wendell Moore was appointed as the chief project engineer. Aerojet is a major rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Sacramento, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, VA, Gainesville, VA, and Camden, AK. Their products include a wide range of propulsion, from main engines used on a number of NASA vehicles and ballistic missiles, down to stationkeeping...
For later history, see below.
Hydrogen peroxide powered rocketpacks
Powerhouse Productions Rocketbelt More commonly known as "The Rocketman" throughout the world. Powerhouse Productions is currently the only company providing Rocketbelt demonstrations. Powerhouse Productions owned and operated by Kinnie Gibson, is the first company to manufacture the 30 second flying Rocketbelt and has been performing Rocketbelt performances exclusivly since 1983 in up to 40 countries. Powerhouse Productions past clients include, the 1984 Summer Olympics, Carnival in Rio de Janerio, Super Bowls, the Rose Parade and Daytona 500 just to name a few. Powerhouse Rocketbelt pilots include Kinnie Gibson, Eric Scott and Dan Schlund. Music sample: Olympic Fanfare and Theme ( file info) — composed by John Williams for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Problems listening to the file? See media help. ...
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Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man The Rocket Man in action Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man, is the only person in the world currently using the rocket belt, which originally was designed for military use. ...
Bell Textron Rocket Belt This is the oldest known type of jetpack or rocketpack. See Bell Rocket Belt. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
RB-2000 Rocket Belt This was a successor to the Bell Rocket Belt. See Bell Rocket Belt#RB2000 Rocket Belt and http://www.canosoarus.com/07RocketBelt/Rocket02.htm. The RB-2000 is also the subject of one of the most mysterious series of events in the type's history: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
In 1992, one-time insurance salesman and entrepreneur Brad Barker formed a company to build a rockeltbelt with two partners: Joe Wright, a businessman based in Houston, and Larry Stanley, an engineer who owned an oil well in Texas. By 1994, they had a working prototype they called the Rocketbelt-2000, or RB-2000. They even asked [Bill] Suitor to fly it for them. But the partnership soon broke down. First Stanley accused Barker of defrauding the company. Then Barker attacked Stanley and went into hiding, taking the RB-2000 with him. Police investigators questioned Barker but released him after three days. The following year Stanley took Barker to court to recover lost earnings. The judge awarded Stanley sole ownership of the RB-2000 and over $10m in costs and damages. When Barker refused to pay up, Stanley kidnapped him, tied him up and held him captive in a box disguised as a SCUBA-tank container. After eight days Barker managed to escape. Police arrested Stanley and in 2002 he was sentenced to life in prison, since reduced to eight years. The rocketbelt has never been found. The above from New Scientist October 2005 [No2519] New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. ...
Bell Pogo The Bell Pogo was a small rocket-powered platform that 2 people could ride on. Its design used features from the Bell Rocket Belt. See this image. The Bell Pogo was a small rocket-powered platform that 2 men could ride on. ...
Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana (TAM) The Tecaeromex Rocket Belt is said to be made by the only company in the world that offers a flying and tested rocket belt package, featured in the March 2006 issue of Popular Science magazine and many TV programs around the world like the Discovery Channel, the BBC, Prosieven, TV Azteca, The Science Channel, The History Channel etc.. Its maker claims that four of his rocketpacks are flying now, his first tethered flights on 22 September 2005. This article is not about the magazine, Popular Science Popular science is interpretation of science intended for a general audience, rather than for other scientists or students. ...
On Aug. 11, 2006 Isabel Lozano was the first woman in the world to fly tethered in a rocket belt in front of millions of TV spectators, she flew with a special rocket belt built by TAM.
Turbojet pack (Bell Jet Flying Belt) In 1965 Bell Aerosystems concluded a new contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a jet pack with a turbojet engine. This project was called the "Jet Flying Belt", or simply the "Jet Belt". Wendell Moore and John K. Hulbert, a specialist in gas turbines, worked to design a new turbojet pack. Williams Research Corporation (now Williams International) in Walled Lake, Michigan, designed and built a new turbojet engine to Bell's specifications in 1969. It was called the WR-19, with a rated thrust of 195 kgf (1,910 newtons) and weighing 31 kg. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ...
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The first free flight of the "Jet Belt" took place on 7 April 1969 at the Niagara Falls Municipal Airport. Pilot Robert Courter flew about 100 meters in a circle at an altitude of 7 meters, reaching a speed of 45 km/h. The following flights were longer, up to 5 minutes. Theoretically, this new pack could fly for 25 minutes and go up to 135 km/h. April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
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In spite of successful tests, the U.S. Army lost interest. The pack was complex to maintain and too heavy. Landing with its weight on his back was hazardous to the pilot, and catastrophic loss of a turbine blade could have been lethal.
Thus, the "Bell Jet Flying Belt" remained an experimental model. On 29 May 1969, Wendell Moore died of complications from a heart attack he had suffered six months earlier, and work on the turbojet pack was ended. Bell sold the sole version of the "Bell pack", together with the patents and the technical documentation, to Williams Research Corporation. This pack is now in the Williams International company museum. May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Special features of the turbojet pack (See ru:Image:Jet Flying Belt.jpg Turbojet pack "Bell Jet Flying Belt". Pilot Robert Courter, 1969.)
The "Jet Belt" has a WR-1234 turbojet engine, which weighs 331 kg, thrust 1945 kgf (13,910 N), diameter 30 cm. The engine is fixed vertically, with its air duct downward (1). Air intake is compressed by turbine and is divided into two flows. One flow goes into the combustion chamber. The second flow goes between the double walls of the engine, then it is mixed with the flow of the outgoing hot gases, cooling them and protecting the pilot from the high temperature. In the upper part of the engine the mixed flow is divided and enters two pipes, which lead to jet nozzles (2). The construction of the nozzles makes it possible to move the jet to any side. Kerosene fuel is in tanks (33) beside the engine. Control of the turbojet pack is similar to control of the rocket pack, but the pilot no can no longer tilt the entire engine. Maneuvering is carried out only by deflecting the controlled nozzles. By inclining levers, the pilot can move the jets of both nozzles forward, back, or sideways. The pilot rotates by the turning the left handle. The right handle, as usual, governs the engine thrust. The jet engine is started with the aid of a powder cartridge. While testing this starter, a mobile starter on a special cart was used. There are instruments to control the power of the engine, and a portable radio to connect and transmit telemetry data to ground-based engineers. On top of the pack is a standard auxiliary landing parachute (4); it is effective only when opened higher than 20 meters. Kerosene or paraffin oil (British English, not to be confused with the waxy solid also called paraffin wax or just paraffin) is a colorless flammable hydrocarbon liquid. ...
Real space use Rocket packs can be useful in outer space, where much less thrust is needed, because the weightlessness of space removes the need to continually fight against gravity. Layers of Atmosphere - not to scale (NOAA)[1] Outer space, sometimes simply called space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ...
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Rocket packs were tested during mission STS-64. Mission Specialists Carl Meade and Mark Lee tested the SAFER Rocket Pack while Hammond remained inside the Orbiter.
NASA's Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) (compressed gas powered) In the 1980s, NASA demonstrated the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), a rocket pack that allowed an astronaut to function as his/her own spacecraft, but the system was retired before the decade was gone. The MMU is the only jetpack of practical importance. Its operational area is outside a space station or spacecraft, where an astronaut can limitedly move independently. The MMU's propulsion was produced by high-pressure nitrogen gas discharged through nozzles (which the MMU has 24 of). The MMU was used since 1984 in three Space Shuttle missions (STS-41-B, STS-41-C and STS-51-A). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ...
U.S. astronaut Bruce McCandless uses a manned maneuvering unit A Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is a rocket pack (propulsion backpack that snaps onto the back of the spacesuit) which has been used on spacewalks (EVAs) from NASAs space shuttle, allowing an astronaut to move independently from the shuttle. ...
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit outside the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984. ...
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NASA's SAFER Recently, NASA has introduced the SAFER, a smaller simpler version of the MMU meant to be used in case of accidental separation from spacecraft or station. With only small amounts of thrust needed, safety and temperature are much more manageable than in Earth gravity in the atmosphere. Astronaut Mark C. Lee free floating in space with the SAFER system SAFER Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) is a small, self-contained, propulsive backpack system used to provide free-flying mobility for a Space Shuttle or International Space Station (ISS) crewmember during extra-vehicular activity (EVA). ...
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Jet pack or rocket pack with wings Jetpacks and rocketpacks would likely have much better flight time on a tankful of fuel if they had wings. There have been occasional real cases of a man gliding horizontally long distances with his body horizontal and no flying aid except a pair of rigid airplane-type wings strapped directly to his body; see also wingsuits. Wingsuit flying is one of the latest sub-disciplines in skydiving. ...
Visa Parviainen's jet-assisted wingsuit On 25 October 2005 in Lahti in Finland, Visa Parviainen jumped from a hot air balloon in a wingsuit with two small turbojet jet engines attached to his feet. The turbojets provided approximately 16 kg (35 lbs) of thrust each and ran on kerosene (JET A-1) fuel. Visa apparently achieved approximately 30 seconds of horizontal flight with no noticeable loss of altitude.[3] Location within Finland Lahti (Lahtis in Swedish) is a Finnish city of 100,049 inhabitants (2006), bordering the Vesijärvi lake. ...
Hot air balloon in flight Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human carrying flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers invention in Annonay, France in 1783. ...
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Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. ...
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Yves Rossy's jetpack A Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy developed and built a winged pack with aerodynamic carbon wings with a span of 3 meters, and four small jet engines (developed by the German Jet-Cat company (http://www.jetcat.de (in German)) under the wings. He can achieve true flight with it. He uses his body and a hand throttle to maneuver. Rossy says he has become "the first person to gain altitude and maintain a stable horizontal flight thanks to aerodynamic carbon foldable wings". Yves Rossy (born August 27, 1959) is a Swiss pilot, inventor and aviation enthusiast. ...
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His first successful trial was on 24 June 2004, near Geneva, Switzerland. Yves Rossi did more than 30 motorized flights since then. After being lifted by a Pilatus Porter plane, he flies horizontally for up to 6 minutes and 30 seconds, then lands using a paraglider. Web-site with video shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Rocket pack in show business In the 1960s the "Bell Rocket Belt" was on the peak of popularity. Bell arranged demonstration flights in the U.S. and other countries, each time causing the public enthusiasm.
In 1965 the James Bond movie Thunderball (film) featured Bond (played by Sean Connery) attending a funeral of an agent of the mysterious organization SPECTRE in a French Chateau. The SPECTRE agent is alive and dressed as his own widow. Bond liquidates the enemy, then flees to the roof and flies away using the previously hidden rocket pack. For other uses, see Casino Royale (2006 film). ...
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In the filming two packs were used. One was a non-functional prop: it can be seen on Sean Connery in the large-scale planning scenes. The second was a genuine Bell Rocket Belt and it actually flew, piloted by Bell Company pilots Bill Suitor and Gordon Yaeger. The scenes with Sean Connery and the pack had to be shot twice, because the first time they photographed it his head was uncovered, and in the flying shots Bill Suitor flatly refused to take off without a crash helmet. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Gordon Yaeger piloted the Bell Rocket Belt at the 1964 New York World Fair and in the James Bond movie Thunderball. ...
In the film's sound track the real shrill roar of the rocket pack's engine was replaced with the hiss of a fire extinguisher "to seem more realistic". Generally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture. ...
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(IMAGE: Olympiad of 1984. Pilot Bill Suitor. Pack belongs to Nelson Tayler.)
One additional famous appearance of a pack occurred on the opening of the summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984. The pack was piloted by both Bill Suitor and Gordon Yaeger. Suitor was a legendary personality (in all calculation more than 1200 flights — more than in any other pilot to this day). Bill took off from platforms, flew above many spectators, who from the unexpected contingency covered their heads with their hands, and landed opposite the presidential platform, where sat Ronald Reagan. This flight was seen by 100,000 spectators on the platforms and about 2.5 billion television viewers (besides the USSR, which boycotted that Olympiad). The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
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The Powerhouse Rocketbelt in flight. Best known as "The Rocketman" The company Powerhouse Productions Incorporated offers Rocketbelt performances around the world under the character name, "Rocketman". All together the "Rocketman" has performed over 1300 flight in 35+ counties for over 25 years. Such flights include, the 2007 Rose Parade, two Carnival Parades in Rio de Janiero, three Super Bowls, numerous TV shows and countless sporting events on every continent except Antarctica. Powerhouse Productions is the only company in the world providing "Rocketbelt" performances. Their website is www.rocketman.org Powerhouse Productions also owns the trademarks for "Rocketman" and "Rocketbelt" Image File history File links Rose_2. ...
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In 2001 the Powerhouse Productions pilot Eric Scott stated that he had flown the jet pack to 152 feet (46 m) height. However, confirmation did not follow this record. There is however, video of the flight at www.rocketman.org showing the flight from the pilots point of view. The video shows an altimeter rising as the pilot rises higher.
The current and newest Powerhouse Productions pilot is "Rocketman" Dan Schlund. Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man The Rocket Man in action Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man, is the only person in the world currently using the rocket belt, which originally was designed for military use. ...
Making a rocket pack at home using plans from the Internet As depicted in Episode 32 of MythBusters, according to an urban legend, a jetpack or rocketpack may be affordably built from plans purchased off the Internet. The jetpack produced by the MythBusters, where two ducted fans were powered by a Rotax 583 ultralight engine, was not powerful enough to lift a person off the ground, and was expensive to build. An urban legend or urban myth is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ...
MythBusters is a U.S. popular science television program on the Discovery Channel starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who use their skills and expertise to test the validity of various rumors and urban legends in popular culture. ...
A ducted fan is an arrangement of a propeller-driven aircraft where the propeller is mounted inside the fuselage, within a duct. ...
Ultralight aviation is a segment of aviation that is permitted in the United States of America by the FAA as long as certain weight, speed, and fuel capacity restrictions are observed. ...
Even if a rocket pack could be built, flying a pack is both extraordinarily difficult and extremely dangerous. It takes many, many hours of practice to learn to fly the pack and this training carries a high cost in propellant. Even when trained, the low flight time of any peroxide-based pack means that the entire flight is below the minimum parachute altitude so any loss of control or failure of the pack is highly likely to be fatal.
Rocket packs in our time In recent years the rocket pack has become popular among enthusiasts, who by their efforts have made some. The pack's construction is sufficiently simple, but suitability for flying depends on two key parts: the gas generator, and the thrust regulator valve. Specifically, they were led to the mind of Wendell Moore in the course of long tests.
The multiplication of packs is held in control by the scarcity of concentrated hydrogen peroxide, which is no longer produced by important chemical companies. Missileman-amateurs have made their own installations to make concentrated hydrogen peroxide by electrolysis. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colourless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. ...
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In the world are now no more than 5 successfully flying rocket packs. For forty and more years from the day of the first flight of Harold Graham only eleven people (including him) have flown one, due to the lethal factor on the pack in free-air conditions (without the safety leash). Most known of them, as has already been mentioned, is Bill Suitor, who once lived near Wendell Moore and asked if he could fly with the pack, which Moore brought home in a baggage carrier.
Two high-profile jet pack projects are currently being operated by Jet pack International and ZapMeNow.org. The unit being promoted by Jet pack International was flown for thirty seconds in Central Park on the April 9th, 2007 episode of the TODAY Show, and will reportedly retail for roughly $200,000. The research project being conducted by www.ZapMeNow.org, is a nonprofit organization founded by Hollywood writer and actor David Filmore. So far no detailed information has been made public for when they will be releasing their jet pack for purchase. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...
Fictional use Jet packs or rocket packs have been used in some movies, such as the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball and the 1991 Disney movie The Rocketeer, and have long been a staple of science fiction in comic books and novels. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
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Thunderball is the fourth film in the EON Productions James Bond series, and also the fourth film to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond 007. ...
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A number of variations of jet packs also exist, including rocket boots and "jump jets", which assist vehicles (usually mecha) or infantry in leaping across vast distances or over obstacles; examples of the latter include the powered armoured Space Marines from Warhammer 40K or the Mobile Infantry of Starship Troopers. For the fictional robot, see Mecha. ...
Space marines are fictional soldiers that operate in outer space. ...
3 Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures Warhammer 40,000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K or just 40K) is a tabletop miniature wargame, produced by the British gaming company Games Workshop. ...
The Mobile Infantry (MI) is a fictional military force in Robert A. Heinleins novel Starship Troopers and the 1997 film of the same name. ...
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Stories - Across the Pathways of Space: comic
- Adam Strange (he habitually wore a rocket pack): comic
- Agent Liberty: comic character
- Arrested Development: a Japanese mail order jetpack serves as a prominent plot point in a third season episode.
- Ark II: live-action science fiction series
- Several James Bond movies, e.g. Thunderball (1965) (IMAGE: Sean Connery in Thunderball)
- Buck Rogers science fiction comics written in the 1920s
- Buttercup Festival (on one character who occasionally appears) : comic
- The Fall Guy (Used by Lee Majors in one of the episodes) : television series
- The Centurions (TV series): cartoons, comic, toys
- Episode 132 (Ten Hut!) of The Colbert Report: television series
- Commando Cody: character in Radar Men from the Moon: 1949 movie series
- Deep Space Homer: an episode of the Simpsons
- Star Wars: Dark troopers
- Fahrenheit 451, 1966: book & movie
- one early episode of The Fairly OddParents: cartoons
- Family Guy (Season 3, Episode 13): television series: shows Bill Gates flying with a jetpack
- Family guy episode- PTV: Peter is too heavy to use a jetpack.
- An episode of Gilligan's Island, where Gilligan was the only one light enough to use it for long enough to be practical
- Hellions: comic
- Jingle All the Way: comedy movie
- Jodo Kast: character in Star Wars Extended Universe comics and novels
- King of the Rocketmen: 1949 movie series
- Logan's Run: the 1976 film version starring Michael York
- Lost in Space: television series: (IMAGE: Guy Williams)
- a member of the Mutant Liberation Front: comic characters
- Minority Report, 2002.
- On the False Earths: comic
- a silly makeshift jetpack in The Red Green Show: television comedy
- The Regina Monologues: an episode of the Simpsons
- Robocop uses a clip-on backpack rocketpack or jetpack near the end of RoboCop 3.
- The Rocketeer, by Disney in 1991, set a few years before World War II. Here a rocketpack is the main feature of the story.
- The Running Man. The Stalker "Fireball," whose trademark weapon is a flamethrower, uses a rocketpack to get to the Game Zone. The rocketpack appears to be fueled by propane, as Fireball's propane-fired flamethrower is connected to the rocketpack.
- The Star Wars series characters Boba Fett and Jango Fett.
- Stratos: toys and cartoons
- That '70s Show: Red imagines the future of personal travel as using jetpacks rather than cars in many instances
- There: a subscription business model internet service
- Treehouse of Horror XIV: an episode of the Simpsons
- Episode 62 of the animated series Tailspin character Baloo flies a Rocketpack under the psudeonym "BulletHead"
- Wacky Races: in one episode Pat Pending converted his Convert-a-Car into a jet pack
- In Australian action-thriller writer Matthew Reilly's Temple, a group of Neo-Nazis steal experimental jet-packs from DARPA.
Across the Pathways of Space (Par les Chemins de lEspace) is a collection of short stories in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science-fiction series Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. ...
Adam Strange is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. ...
Agent Liberty (Benjamin Lockwood) is a fictional character from DC Comics, who has the ability to use gadgets. ...
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Ark II was a live-action science fiction series aimed at children that aired on CBS beginning in 1976 as part of its Saturday morning line-up. ...
Throughout the James Bond series of films Q Branch has given Bond a wide variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. ...
Thunderball is the fourth film in the EON Productions James Bond series, and also the fourth film to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond 007. ...
Buck Rogers is a fictional pulp character who first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers, the hero of two novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan published in the magazine Amazing Stories. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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Buttercup Festival was a print/web comic that ran from February 17, 2000 to January 10, 2005. ...
The Fall Guy was an American television series produced for ABC. It ran from 1981 to 1986 and starred Lee Majors, Heather Thomas and Douglas Barr. ...
The Centurions (1985-1987) was a syndicated 30 minute science fiction American animated television series produced by Ruby-Spears and animated in Japan by Sunrise. ...
Stephen Colbert on the set of The Colbert Report The Colbert Report episode guide lists information on past and upcoming episodes of The Colbert Report, hosted by Stephen Colbert, playing a populist blowhard journalist character he previously played on The Daily Show. ...
Commando Cody in RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON! Commando Cody was the hero in a 12-episode science-fiction serial made in 1952 by Republic Pictures entitled Radar Men from the Moon, and a followup 1953 set of 12 short-subjects (or 12 cliffhangerless serial chapters) collectively called the adventures...
Radar Men from the Moon (Republic Studios, 1952) was the first Commando Cody serial, in 12 chapters, starring newcomer George Wallace (1917-2005) as Cody and Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, with serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon. ...
Deep Space Homer is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. ...
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Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian soft science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was published in 1953. ...
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman. ...
Due to his cultural and economic impact, Bill Gates has been portrayed in several films and referenced in several other places. ...
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft, the worlds largest software company. ...
PTV can refer to: PTV (PremiumTV), UK based digital rights and streaming company PTV, a Family Guy episode Pakistan Television Corporation, a television channel in Pakistan Pactiv. ...
For the NES video game, see The Adventures of Gilligans Island. ...
There have been several groups of fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe who have been known as the Hellions. ...
Jingle All the Way (1996) is a comedy film directed by Brian Levant and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad. ...
Jodo Kast at the mercy of his predecessor. ...
Logans Run is a 1976 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. ...
shows cast members: Angela Cartwright, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Jonathan Harris, June Lockhart, Guy Williams & Bill Mumy. ...
The Mutant Liberation Front (or MLF) was a fictional terrorist group/supervillain team in the Marvel Universe. ...
The Minority Report (The) Minority Report is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick first published in 1956. ...
On The False Earths is volume seven in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science-fiction series Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. ...
The Red Green Show is a television comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on PBS in the United States from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC. Reruns currently air on CBC Television, CBC Country Canada, The Comedy Network, and various PBS stations. ...
The Regina Monologues is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ...
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RoboCop is a 1987 cyberpunk, action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven. ...
RoboCop 3 is a science fiction film, released in 1993, set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. ...
The Rocketeer is a 1991 superhero adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures[1] and directed by Joe Johnston. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
The Running Man is a film loosely based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, released in 1987, and was directed by Paul Michael Glaser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards. ...
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Jango Fett is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. ...
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That 70s Show is an American television sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenagers living in Point Place, Wisconsin, a fictional suburb of either Kenosha, Wisconsin[1] or Green Bay, Wisconsin,[2] from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979. ...
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Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. ...
Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the villains of Wacky Races, in their car, the Mean Machine. ...
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Video games - Aerial Antics: Independent jet pack game developed by Leadfoot Productions and published by Garage Games in 2004.
- Armed and Dangerous: The "Jumper Pack"
- Battlefield 1942 Secret Weapons: on three maps
- Bomberman Hero
- City of Heroes/City of Villains: Jet Packs are utilized by the Sky Raider and Gold Bricker villain groups, as well as the Longbow and Wyvern hero groups.
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Allied Rocketeers have rocket packs
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun: Jump Jet Infantry use jet packs, similar to a VTOL engine
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back: The levels Rock It and Pack Attack has Crash fly a jetpack
- Dangerous Dave: a dos game where 2d dave navigates occasionally with the use of a jetpack.
- Dark Trooper: a type of character in Star Wars expanded universe videogames
- Destroy All Humans!: Crypto, the protagonist of the game, has a jet-pack built into his armour. It is also available in the game's sequel, Destroy All Humans! 2
- Donkey Kong 64: The character Diddy Kong has a Crystal Coconut-powered jetpack.
- Dragon Ball Z Budokai: Hercule, who lacks the ability to fly like the other characters, uses a jet-pack instead.
- Duke Nukem: the titular character from the series of Duke Nukem videogames
- From Russia With Love
- Gear Krieg: alternate-history roleplaying game
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto: 3rd person game where 'mecha' have short range jetpacks with 'nitro'(a burst of power).
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where it is a top-secret project
- Half-Life: towards the end of the game, the player gains the use of a "Longjump Module" which allows the user to leap approximately twenty to thirty feet forward, but does not grant any sustained flight; a more realistic depiction of an actual jetpack than appears in most videogames.
- Halo 2: High ranking Elites, known as Rangers, use jetpacks during the course of the game.
- Jet Force Gemini: In the video game, jetpack upgrades are given to the playable characters after reaching a certain point. However, the jetpacks were only usable for a short period, and only after fueling it.
- Jetpac - main method of movement, and its sequels Lunar Jetman and Solar Jetman
- Jetpack written by Adam Pedersen
- Jetpack Doc: The character of Emmett Brown (from the Back to the Future trilogy) travels to the future and uses a jetpack in this short arcade-inspired fan-game.
- Jetz Rampage series (Jetz Rampage, Jetz Rampage 2, Jetz Fusion and Jetz Rampage 4: Revenge) all have the main character, Jetz, use a jetpack suit as a major part of the gameplay.
- MDK2 (used by Max, one uses standard fuel and the other uses plutonium)
- Metroid Prime: Some Space Pirates are equipped with jetpacks.
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Oni (video game) villain character Barabas uses a jetpack during fights
- Ork
- Outwars: Where the player's character has a jetpack, later with wings
- Pilotwings 64
- Pilotwings
- Quake 4 Network Guardian
- Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science: educational videogame
- The Rocketeer games
- Tremulous
- Ratchet and Clank Clank has a jetpack upgrade from the Helipack.
- Rocket Knight Adventures
- Rocket Ranger, set in World War II
- S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
- Scram
- Sin Episodes: Some of the SinTEK soldiers use jetpacks
- Soldat: players use jet boots
- StarCraft: Terran SCVs use jetpacks for movement.
- StarCraft II: Terran Reavers use jet packs to jump over terrain irregularities.
- Star Fox: Assault: In VS mode, there is an unlockable jet pack.
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
- Star Wars: Demolition
- Star Wars: Jedi Academy (multiplayer)
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
- Tribes series
- War Front-Turning Point: On the German Side, Jetpack Troopers are available for use who travel in quick "jumps"
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Assault Space Marines, Chaos Raptors, and Ork StormBoyz use jetpacks
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade: Tau Crisis Suits, Stealth Suits, and Commanders use jetpacks.
- Worms series
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Flag Ship from the video game Gorf A boss is a particularly challenging computer-controlled character in video games. ...
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (commonly abbreviated MGS3) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. ...
Armed & Dangerous is a video game created by Planet Moon Studios in collaboration with LucasArts. ...
Battlefield 1942 is an expansive first-person shooter (FPS), set in World War II, developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows (2002) and Apple Macintosh (2004). ...
Bomberman Hero is an action video game sequel to Bomberman 64 for the Nintendo 64. ...
City of Heroes (CoH) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. ...
City of Villains is a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSoft. ...
Paragon City, the City of Heroes setting place, and the Rogue Isles, the City of Villains locale, are full of organizations that players must confront. ...
Paragon City, the City of Heroes setting place, and the Rogue Isles, the City of Villains locale, are full of organizations that players must confront. ...
Paragon City, the City of Heroes setting place, and the Rogue Isles, the City of Villains locale, are full of organizations that players must confront. ...
Paragon City, the City of Heroes setting place, and the Rogue Isles, the City of Villains locale, are full of organizations that players must confront. ...
The Hawker Harrier, one of the famous examples of a plane with VTOL capability. ...
Crash Bandicoot 2 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is a platform game made by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. ...
Dangerous Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero. ...
The Imperial Dark Troopers from the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe Saga are an elite branch of the Imperial stormtroopers. ...
Destroy All Humans! is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released for Xbox and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems on June 21, 2005. ...
Crypto is an English prefix that means hidden or secret. The term crypto is also employed as shorthand for the following: Cryptography, the practice of the use of encryption. ...
Destroy All Humans! 2, known as Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love in Europe is a video game and sequel to Destroy All Humans!. It was released on October 17, 2006 in North America. ...
Donkey Kong 64, ) often abbreviated DK 64, is a 3D platformer video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64. ...
Diddy Kong is a monkey in the Donkey Kong series of video games. ...
The Crystal Coconut is a fictional item in the Donkey Kong Country video game series. ...
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, released as Dragon Ball Z ) in Japan, is a fighting video game that was released for the PlayStation 2 in December 2002 in North America and for the GameCube in North America on October 2003. ...
Hercule can refer to: Hercule Poirot, a fictional character, the primary detective of Agatha Christies novels. ...
Duke Nukem is an action hero created by computer game developers Todd Replogle, George Broussard, Allen Blum and Scott Miller of 3D Realms/Apogee Software. ...
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Gear Krieg is an alternate history game setting published by Dream Pod 9. ...
Giants: Citizen Kabuto was developed by Planet Moon and released by Interplay in 2000 on the PC after many delays. ...
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the fifth video game in the Grand Theft Auto series. ...
Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ...
// Halo 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter developed by Bungie Studios. ...
Alternative meaning: Elite (computer game) In sociology as in general usage, the elite (the elect; sometimes the French form élite is used) refers to a relatively small dominant group within a larger society, which enjoys privileged status and, almost invariantly, exploits individuals of lower social status. ...
Jet Force Gemini, or Star Twins ) in Japan, is a science fiction third-person shooter game for the Nintendo 64 developed and published by Rare that was released on October 11, 1999. ...
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Lunar Jetman is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. ...
Jetpack is a videogame published by Software Creations (US) in 1993. ...
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Back to the Future trilogy DVD Back to the Future is a science fiction film trilogy written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis. ...
MDK2 is a video game and sequel to the third-person shooter, MDK. The original MDK was developed by Shiny Entertainment and released in 1997 by Interplay. ...
Metroid Prime )is a video game released in November 18, 2002 developed by Nintendo-owned Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. ...
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Oni is a third-person action game developed by Bungie West, a division of Bungie Studios (now part of Microsoft), and released in 2000. ...
Ork is a computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST platforms. ...
Outwars is a science-fiction third-person shooter developed by SingleTrac and published by Microsoft in 1998. ...
Pilotwings 64 is a video game for the Nintendo 64, released in 1996, along with the launch of the console. ...
Pilotwings is a Nintendo video game for the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, originally released in 1990, and included with the system in some early packages. ...
Quake 4 is the fourth title in the series of Quake FPS computer games. ...
Quarky & Quaysoos Turbo Science was an educational computer game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS in early 1992. ...
Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #1 (1988), Comico Comics. ...
Tremulous is an open source team-based first-person shooter with RTS elements. ...
Ratchet and Clank is a popular video game for the Playstation 2 developed by Insomniac Games, creators of the Spyro series for the original Playstation. ...
Rocket Knight Adventures is a 16-bit generation side scrolling platform video game produced and released in 1993 by Konami for the SEGA Genesis console, and designed by Nobuya Nakazato, creator of the Contra series. ...
Rocket Ranger is a 1988 action adventure computer game developed and published by Cinemaware. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
A SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor - though the term has been extended to cover shutdowns of other complex operations, such as server farms and even large model railroads (see Tech Model Railroad Club). ...
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StarCraft is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment. ...
The Marines of the Terran Confederacy. ...
StarCraft II is a sequel to the real-time strategy game StarCraft, announced on May 19, 2007, at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea. ...
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was a multimedia project created by Lucasfilm in 1996. ...
Tribes is a series of science fiction first-person shooter computer games originally published by Dynamix, a subsidiary of Sierra Entertainment. ...
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a Real Time Strategy game for the PC developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. Based on Games Workshops popular tabletop wargame, Warhammer 40,000, Dawn of War was released in September 2004. ...
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See also Artists depiction of a helibackpack with counter-rotating twin rotors A backpack helicopter or helibackpack is a helicopter motor and rotor and controls assembly that can be strapped to a mans back, so that he can walk about on the ground wearing it, and can use it to...
This is a list of fictional weapons and other items for the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998). ...
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Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man The Rocket Man in action Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man, is the only person in the world currently using the rocket belt, which originally was designed for military use. ...
Foot-Launched Powered Hang Glider. ...
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