Romania, and, without arousing any apparent interest, informed the American Embassy of his idea. However it was tested by Henri Coanda, a paratrooper who crashed it the first time but managed the second after he advised to change the fuel and improve on the design. In 1962 a backpack was created at Bell Laboratories, following Justin Capra's prototype. The backpack is now displayed in a museum.

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In 1958, Garry Burdett and Alexander Bohr, Thiokol Corporation

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