The Rocketbelt Caper - A True Tale of Invention, Obsession, and Murder - Paul Brown - Google Books

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James Bond meets the Coen Brothers in this riveting true story of three friends and their quest to build a Buck Rogers-style flying machine - the amazing Rocketbelt 2000. Perhaps the least incredible thing about their tale is that they succeeded in…