Channel Surfing
Not all aircraft, it seems, are quite ready to make like Yves Rossy and hop the English Channel. This pedal-powered blimp, for instance, still needs some tweaking. 
Posted by admin on October 2, 2008 at 10:32 am
Jetpack Dreams
"This snappily written, often funny book should attract dreamers of ... all ages."
— Publishers Weekly
"Montandon's entertaining adventures highlight a strange footnote of the space age."
— Booklist
"Reading this book is as fun as zooming through the sky with a rocket on your back. And better yet, you won't break your collarbone doing it."
— A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-it-All and The Year of Living Biblically
"Jetpack Dreams is 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."
— Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine and founder of BoingBoing.net
— Publishers Weekly
"Montandon's entertaining adventures highlight a strange footnote of the space age."
— Booklist
"Reading this book is as fun as zooming through the sky with a rocket on your back. And better yet, you won't break your collarbone doing it."
— A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-it-All and The Year of Living Biblically
"Jetpack Dreams is 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."
— Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine and founder of BoingBoing.net
