In 1969, Tyler, a three - time Academy Award winner who has long built personal flight devices for use in Hollywood films, created the first civilian rocket belt, a later version of which was piloted at the opening of the 1984 Olympics. (entrepreneur.com)
Low - powered rocket belts remain mostly a gimmick: cool to watch at sporting events or at the state fair, but impractical. (discovermagazine.com)
Adapted from Paul Brown's book The Rocketball Caper: A True Tale of Invention, Obsession and Murder, the movie, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago, tells the story of three would - be entrepreneurs who join forces and set out to invent and market a personal rocket belt. (shareddarkness.com)