I see Lockport paper covered Saturday's flight.

Here are a few of my photos from Day One. ( Rocketbelt Convention )

I think there are about 100 people attending. Today: juicy talks about Bell history, then a flight in the street outside the Niagara Aerospace Museum.


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Am in Niagara Falls at the Rocketbelt Convention, a gathering of former Bell Rocket Belt pilots and engineers, new-generation RB builders, and enthusiasts. At one point I thought I was gonna be the only guy here who doesn't have an Agena engine in his garage.

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In 1992, somebody asked about jetpacks, and I dipped into my Aircars And Other Weird Flying Vehicles file to explain them. Here is that posting, with addresses redacted by latterday Google archives.

( Rocket Belt and WASP (was Re: Jetpack) )

Just got off the phone with Kathleen Clough, one of the organizers of the Rocketbelt Convention next weekend in Niagara Falls. They are now planning two demonstration flights, on Saturday and on Sunday. And they got covered in the Niagara Gazette yesterday.

I can scarcely believe this:

A convention for rocket belt enthusiasts is being organized.

Niagara Falls, New York. Saturday and Sunday, 23 and 24 September, 2006.

Four Bell Rocket Belt pilots have committed to appear.

A bunch of new-generation rocket-belt builders will attend.

Wow.

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Apropos of the widespread discussion among correspondents returning from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on its opening weekend, I just discovered this fine song. No, it's not in the movie; rather, Harry Shearer played it on his radio show.