Remember when James Bond launched himself from the roof of a French chateau with a rocket pack in Thunderball? Almost 50 years ago, a Middle Tennessee man named Hal Graham did it for real. Graham actually made the first free-flight rocket-belt test for Bell Aerospace, thrilling Pentagon officials and President John F. Kennedy with his soaring demonstrations, bounding over H-21 helicopters and across a lake at Fort Bragg.
When he retired, Graham became a charter pilot, a man at home in the sky
