JetPack Aviation Corp., based in Van Nuys, says it’s the only one to have developed a jet pack that can be worn ... In the 1950s, a Bell Aerosystems engineer named Wendell Moore developed ...

The U.S. Army contracted out research and development on a jet pack to Bell Aerosystems in the 1950s, and they delivered. The U.S. Army contracted out research and development on a jet pack to ...

This Rocket Belt No. 2 was worn by William P. "Bill" Suitor while serving as a rocket belt or jet pack test pilot for Bell Aerosystems from March 1964 to June 1970. He flew it on several occasions, ...

This awesome photo of Bell ... Pack, demonstrated at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, is featured in the book Exit to Tomorrow: World’s Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005. See also ...

Narrator: This is the world's fastest jet-pack system, capable of reaching up ... but none of them were ever produced. Then in 1962, Bell Aerosystems debuted a design that featured two foil ...

Bell will also display the legendary Bell Rocket Belt, touted the world’s first jet pack, which was even featured in the James Bond "Thunderball" movie, in 1965. The jet pack weighed 120 pounds ...

To some extent, everyone's in the market for a jet pack. But since Bell Labs built the first rocket belt (the correct, if less exciting, name) in 1953, potential buyers have been stymied by two ...

In 1969 awarded exploratory contracts for lunar personal flying vehicles including one to Bell who had their Earth-bound jet pack that shows up every so often for example in Bond movies.