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Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations.

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations. By Michaelson. St. Paul, Minnesota: Motorbooks, 2007. Photographs. Appendices. Pp. 240. $27.95 ISBN: 0-7603-3143-9

Building rocket-powered vehicles to achieve ever more speed, sometimes associated with climbing to ever higher altitudes, has a long history. Some enthusiasts might trace the record back to sixteenth-century Chinese aristocrat Wan Hu's disastrous attempt to propel himself into space by strapping 47 black-powder rockets to his chair and having 47 servants simultaneously light the fuses. Other speedsters likely would point to Fritz von Opel's and Max Valier's experimentation with rocket-powered automobiles and aircraft in late-1920s Germany. Michaelson...

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