I was at the Jet Pack Conference at the Hiller Aviation Museum (home of the Hiller Flying Platform and other rare personal flying vehicles) in San Carlos, CA this past weekend (Sep 6-7).

It was well attended, I would say by about 3-400 people and we all got to see the "Rocket Man", Eric Scott, of Jet Pack International and Go Fast Sports fly his rocket pack around for about 20 seconds at a time.

I was able to present the VertiPod 2 in a presentation time for about 30 minutes, and fielded a lot of very good questions from an enthusiastic audience.

What does any of this have to do with the Moon?

Well, first of all, the Rocket Belt was originally set up as a trainer for the military and for NASA, to help train Astronauts on the use of such things in space, and even on the Moon. The Rocket Belt was originally going to be used on the Moon in the Apollo program, but they decided that wheels were safer, so they would rather send a "Moon Buggy" than a lightweight rocket pack as a means for lunar surface travel. So the Rocket Pack is relevant, historically and directly, to the Moon.

The VertiPod 2, as we've said before, is going to be a funding source for LunaTrex. There are some exciting possibilities developing that way, and we'll keep you posted, but kits are now available for pre-order, and we anticipate reasonable sales by year-end.

We look forward to keeping the community posted on our development on all fronts. I'll include a picture of Eric Scott from the launch platform at the Jet Pack Conference in a follow-on post.

All the best,
Pete

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