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Next month, for the first time in public, members of the original Bell Aerospace rocketbelt team are meeting modern day rocketbelt engineers, builders, and pilots from around the world—enthusiasts that are keen on keeping the dream alive and high-flying.
A Rocketbelt Convention is being held September 23-24 at the Niagara Aerospace Museum in Niagara Falls, New York, culminating in an all-up demonstration flight. The program is sponsored by Jet P.I./GoFast energydrinks.
“The convention will be a unique, one of a kind, never seen before event,”
But the rocketbelt as mainstream flying machine in the future does not appear to be in the cards, enthusiasts said.
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“I predict that some day there will be people racing rocket belts just like air races,” Michaelson explained. “But I also predict that if there are ten rocket belts flying at least four people will be killed or seriously injured. I hope I am wrong. But these things are incredibly dangerous,” he said.
"For most of us, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. Generally speaking, I think building and a flying rocketbelt is a ‘guy thing’…but you have to be a really smart guy, like a rocket scientist, in good shape, with good balance and a lot of money. That is not the mainstream,” Clough concluded.
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