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===Justin Capra's flying backpack=== [[Justin Capră]] claimed that he invented a "flying rucksack" (Romanian: ''rucsac zburator'') in 1956<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/romanian-who-claimed-to-invent-world-s-first-jetpack-dies-1.2197150 |title=Romanian who claimed to invent world's first jetpack dies |publisher=CTV News |date=20 January 2015 |access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> in [[Romania]], and, without arousing any apparent interest, informed the American Embassy of his idea. However it was tested by Henri Coandă, 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 Capră's prototype. The backpack is now displayed in a museum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alx |first=Dan Florian |date=2022-04-01 |title=Justin Capra and the flying backpack later used by NASA |url=https://www.electrokits.ro/en/justin-goat-and-the-flying-backpack-later-used-by-the-godmother/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=ELECTROKITS.RO |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427125958/https://www.electrokits.ro/en/justin-goat-and-the-flying-backpack-later-used-by-the-godmother/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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