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  1. By the late 1950s, Wendell F. Moore of Bell Aerosystems, one of the great crew-cut, pocket-protected engineers at one of the great aviation companies of the postwar jet age, went to the drawing...

  2. Aug 16, 2022 · One afternoon in New York in the late 1950s, a rocket engineer named Wendell Moore offered an exciting new job to his neighbour’s teenage son. Moore needed someone with no previous flying experience to pilot a new experimental aircraft, and who better than the lad from next door who mows his lawn?

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    May 14, 2024 · The rocket belt was developed by Wendell Moore, a scientist at the aerospace division of the Bell Aircraft Corporation, using funding from the military. The rocket belt used highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide to gain thrust, creating very hot, very powerful jets of steam to gain liftoff.

  4. Wendell F. Moore (6 March 1918, Canton, Ohio – 29 May 1969) was an American aeronautical engineer, known as a jet pack inventor. Wendell F. Moore studied aeronautical engineering at Kent State College and Indiana Technical College but seems to have worked as an engineer instead of completing an academic degree.

  5. Mar 2, 2014 · Inventors and hobbyists continued the work that Moore began at Bell Aerospace, creating their own variations of the hydrogen peroxide-powered pack, including a later model Jetbelt built by Juan...

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  6. Nov 3, 2011 · Bill, a jetpack legend, approached his neighbor for a job in 1963 — he was just 19 years old. Bill's neighbor, Wendell F. Moore, just happened to be the inventor of the Bell Rocketbelt.

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  8. Apr 2, 2024 · Bell rocket engineer Wendell Moore spearheaded the quest to “join man with rocket,” Roach wrote. He created the “rocket-belt” (a less exciting name for the “jet pack”), which consisted of a...

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