Rocketman Bob Maddox for jet bike and booklet Technology

Rocketman Bob Maddox for jet bike and booklet

Now assuredly accustomed with the antics of Bob Maddox, the amiable jet-powered charlatan from Medford, Oregon. The 800,000 or so of you who watched chapped YouTube videos of his jet-powered bike will no agnosticism be animated to apprentice that you anon may be able to see Bob jump from a even in HD. With a jet beggared to his chest, he’ll arise in a absoluteness TV activity he’s dubbed The Rocketman Show.

For the four of bristles readers who don’t apperceive him, Maddox’s hobbies accommodate skydiving and beefcake beating jet engines to whatever he can acquisition — bikes, boats, his body, whatever. If the Rocketman had organized the Olympics, jet-powered amount skaters would accomplish 300 mph bifold axels and Shaun White would still be tomahawking bristles afar aloft Vancouver. And it would be awesome.

Now, Maddox tells us he’s been approached by association at Magical Elves, the assembly aggregation amenable for Top Chef, Activity Runway and Treasure Hunters. Seems they’re dabbling with the abstraction of authoritative ol’ Bob a TV star.

“We e-mailed aback and alternating and I did a agglomeration of videos, and they seemed actual absolute about it,” Maddox said.

If the appearance makes it to the air, Maddox hopes to body jet-powered dragsters, Brilliant Wars-style Podracers, go karts with 200 pounds of thrust, bombinate aircraft that bifold as skydiving platforms, and accompanying jet-engine amber speedboats.

“It’s affectionate of like MythBusters and Monster Garage,” Maddox said of the apriorism for the show. “We’re designing aggregate and demography them out and active them.”

Best of all, the appearance will accommodate him with the funds to body added jet-powered creations after relying on the casual auction of his jet bikes on eBay. “I’m in woodworking and construction, which is absolutely in the toilet appropriate now, so I haven’t been authoritative too abounding things recently,” Maddox said.

That agency Bob could assuredly acquaintance his constant dream of beefcake on four jet engines, cutting 25,000 anxiety into the sky and skydiving aback to earth. We appetite to see that on alive TV, hopefully as a division afterpiece and not a alternation finale.

Joining Maddox would be his nephew, additionally a skydiver, and Bob’s best friend, who plays in a bounded bedrock band. The cartage would be both accelerated and high-design, with Bob application his artist’s eye and cabinetmaking abilities to architecture and body their exteriors. Unlike the wrench-throwing antics of Orange County Choppers, best of the ball would appear from the the actual apriorism of the show: Maddox jumping out of planes and building, testing and aerodynamics homebrew jet-powered cartage able of 300 mph.

“A lot of action would appear from back we booty out an agent that’s authoritative 1,000 or 1,500 pounds of advance that about makes you canyon out aloof continuing abutting to it,” Maddox said. “Even a amiable guy like me gets excited.”

We’re still apprehension chat from the Magical Elves about all of this. Stay tuned.