Super Nerdy - Jet Pack or Jet Pack

In the early references to the actual costume (the super trooper version) it is either called a backpack or a jet pack. Watch the supertrooper video on starwars.com and both men use the word jet pack I think.

So all science aside, I think jet pack is the most accurate.
 
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It seems like it's primary function is as a mode of transport, and jet usually implies that.

Even though Star Wars is loosely derived from Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, "Jet Pack" sounds like something from that era.
 
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my backpack's got jets!

i'm boba the fett

i bounty hunt for jabba hutt...

to finance my 'vette
 
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Jet Pack! =)

I've always called it a jet pack, I don't think I could call it anything else at this point.

My backpack really does have jets. ;)
 
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Rogue Studios pointed out to me that in Batha Tracks #5, one of the first time Boba was seen, the pack is labeled a "rocket pack."

As I was looking at that, it made me wonder if the "rocket" in "rocket pack" is not referring to the propulsion system but to the fact that the pack has a rocket/missle on top? Again, I know, super-nerdy, but is this actually a "rocket carrying jet pack"?

Thanks to Rogue Studios for reminding me of the Bantha Tracks labelling.

PP2 04a.jpg
 
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That is cool Art. I have never seen that particular Write-up about Boba. Thanks for sharing!
 
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Just one Q Art, where are the Rocket Pack controls (#2)? :lol:

I had never seen this, nice (y)
 
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In that labeling they also give the spike sticking out the top of the pack the label of "Grappling Hook"
Since we know this was what it was originally intended to be both by design and designation by the people in the supertrooper video, but also would come to be known as a "missile" or "projectile rocket" of some sort I think its a matter of what nomenclature you want to use.

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000743.html

In this video which I would say is the very earliest that the Fett costume is talked about, the name "Jet Pack" is used twice. Bantha Tracks would have been after this video and alot of their terms seem to be different then other official terms.
Like #4 "Camel view & finder" and using the term "climbing spikes" for the toe spikes which have been called other things in their time.

I think its all in what people want to use. Jet Pack seems to get the vote and there is also a substantial argument for that term.
 
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While we are on the subject of this nerdy stuff, I always wondered about the magnetic grappling hook part??? So the purpose of that, would be to shoot it at something above you, (like a catwalk or other structure), and then presumably use it to propell yourself up via an attached cable. Well why the heck would you need to use that if you have a JP??? LOL

I guess to save your JP fuel??? LOL
 
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While we are on the subject of this nerdy stuff, I always wondered about the magnetic grappling hook part??? So the purpose of that, would be to shoot it at something above you, (like a catwalk or other structure), and then presumably use it to propell yourself up via an attached cable. Well why the heck would you need to use that if you have a JP??? LOL

I guess to save your JP fuel??? LOL

GREAT question! :lol:lol::lol: Didn't quite think that one through did they...
 
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BTW, I think a lot of these terms must have originated with Jose Johnston as there are concept drawing with the toe spikes being used as climbing spike and the grappling rocket being used as such...

Johnston 0219 Sketch.jpg


Johnston 0220 Sketch.jpg
 
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Although I haven't quite figured out the purpose of the grappling hook, I subscribe to the double feature theory of the rocket. That is, the top part of the rocket can shoot separately as a grappling hook. Alternatively, the entire rocket can fire as seen in AOTC.

The conical shape of the rocket lends support to the idea that the rocket is an armor buster. The conical shape is based on the Monroe Effect, which is designed to focus all the energy in a particular direction, and detonate it a slight distance (inches) away from the target, causing the greatest armor piercing effect. That is why all modern RPG's, or other similar explosive devices are shaped in that way. The grappling hooks could also actually just be stabilizer fins, like a modern RPG has.
 
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I think that's the first time I see the second pic :confused That's good :D
 
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Perhaps when the Fett breaks wind there is a connection from hid hind part to the Jet pack "itself" . . . therefore that is where the fuel is and a mechanism in the jet pack to light it up. As we all know. Flatulence is combustable.

And there you have it my friends!

LOL
 
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Rogue Studios pointed out to me that in Batha Tracks #5, one of the first time Boba was seen, the pack is labeled a "rocket pack."

As I was looking at that, it made me wonder if the "rocket" in "rocket pack" is not referring to the propulsion system but to the fact that the pack has a rocket/missle on top? Again, I know, super-nerdy, but is this actually a "rocket carrying jet pack"?

Thanks to Rogue Studios for reminding me of the Bantha Tracks labelling.

Rogue Studios also lists the armour as being that of an Imperial Shocktroper, which we all know is inacurate as well......"Jet Pack" just sounds better....
 
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