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Building a wearable rocket ship

Originally published for paying Patreon members on 2024-02-06. Republished here after a 90-day patron-first period.

In 1976, Jim Neidhardt put one of the first Sony Portapaks in a backpack and used a telephoto lens. Equipped with a radiomike, I roamed the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area, posing as Howard K. Martian, extraterrestrial anthropologist. In some episodes, I used a small, wearble rocket ship. I raced a cable car up California street. My construction mentor, Geo Monley (he has a Patreon), built this model in Sketchup (minus the fins and handles).