Rocket man’s flight of fancy
For the last of this week’s posts related to my book The Rocketbelt Caper, here’s a feature I wrote for The Guardian in October, Rocket man’s flight of fancy, about a Sussex airline pilot who has built a rocketbelt in his back garden.
“I’ve always loved flying,” says Stuart Ross, a commercial airline pilot for whom flying a 767 to the Mediterranean and back a couple of times a week just isn’t enough of a thrill. “A lot of my colleagues get involved in restoring old fighter planes and things like that,” he says, “but I thought, sod it, let’s go for something a bit different.” Read more here…
Stuart Ross is featured in my book, and was also featured on the BBC TV show James May’s Big Ideas, during which the presenter got to fire up Stuart’s creation. Here’s a video:
