Jetpack dreams

"Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines, the jetpack." "Fueled by a fascination with the power of flight and a lifelong obsession, journalist Mac Montandon goes in search of the elusive invention. He examines the jetpack's inspiration from the first flimsy, shoulder-mounted wings, relives Bill Suitor's 1984 Olympic flight in front of billions of viewers around the world, uncovers a gruesome jetpack-driven murder in Houston, and peeks into the secret laboratories and government facilities of today to see the current state…