TANKS A LOT: THE JAMES BOND JET PACK

Jet-packs come up on MC and someone mentioned Gilbert having made the James Bond version. A little digging turned up some photos, and it seems the Jet-pack used the same set of tanks as the Scuba diving set, but with different fittings.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/08/it-is-rocket-science.html#comment-form

I do not know anything about Action Figures, so these notes are all based on photographs. There may well be other variations.

The Jet-pack seems to have been moulded in light blue, and have a silver bar across the top for the exhausts. 

The Scuba tanks were either light blue or yellow, and had a gauge on the back of the tanks, with an air-hose.

Four photographs from Worthpoint.

have you got anything like this readers?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Gilbert Bond Jet Pack

Jet-packs came up recently, and someone mentioned Gilbert having mae the James Bond version. A little digging turned up some photos, and it seems the Jet-pack used the same set of tanks as the Scuba diving set, but with different fittings.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/08/it-is-rocket-science.html#comment-form

I do not know anything about Action Figures, so these notes are all based on photographs. There may well be other variations.

The Jet-pack seems to have been moulded in light blue, and have a silver bar across the top for the exhausts. The Scuba tanks were either light blue or yellow, and had a gauge on the back of the tanks, with an air-hose.

Here are the rest of the Gilbert photographs. This time, of the Scuba tanks, for comparison with the tanks of the Jet Pack.

Four photographs from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Paul 

MYSTERY LAND TRAIN AND THE JET PACK PILOT

This image is a screen shot from a documentary on UK TV last week called Jet Pack Dreamers: Own the Skies. I think the jet pack pilot shown is Bill Suitor.

I've snapped the shot because of the vintage land vehicle.

Wow!

What is that?

Anyone know?

OWN THE SKY: JET PACK DREAMERS

I caught this documentary the other night. Its the very stuff of childhood fantasies, to fly with a jet pack strapped to your back!

This film is the story of one Australian man's life-long quest to do just that with all the joy and pain it brings him.

It also features amazing vintage footage of earlier attempts with rocket packs in the Sixties.

Fascinating obsessive stuff.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009dl2

flamin' blue jeans

Just doodling whilst waiting for news.

Your jet packs welcomed.