Juan Manuel Lozano Gallegos I was born on May 26, 1954 in Mexico City, since a child I liked to work with my hands, the first toy I remember is the Tinker Toy, it was a kit with wood parts to assemble, my next and favorite toy was the Meccano, a metal kit with all kind of metal parts pre-drilled to assemble real working machines, I remember spending large hours making my own toys, later I built scale models, airplanes, boats, helicopters. I have a passion for speed and I love motorcycles, racing cars, planes, boats, rockets and I have practiced the most dangerous sports like sky diving, hang gliding, motorcycle racing. Since a kid I always disassembled everything because I wanted to know how the things worked, I think that I have disassembled and assembled more things no one can imagine and this has been one of my best schools. My poor mom was always very upset with me when she needed her blender and I used the motor for an experiment. At the school I was a trouble kid and I ended psychoanalyzed in the Conduct Clinic for abnormal behavior because I didn't liked the school, because they try to teach me things that I didn't want to learn and they don't teach me what I wanted to learn!, it was just a communication problem!. The only two subjects I liked too much was physics and chemistry unfortunately this classes was only two times per week, I hated the rest of the subjects and the school was a boring place for me. This was a constant fight with my teachers because I considered that my brain has a finite capacity to keep formulas and data that are important for me and not the name of the horse that was rode by El Quijote or the dates and places of the Napoleon fights and another stupid things that I don't care and never used in my life. I skipped the school (play hockey) many times and went to work as a helper at a speed garage that prepared racing cars, there I learned a lot of mechanics, to weld, to paint, to work the fiberglass, to modify engines for racing, to port and polish the race car heads, etc., this was the things I wanted to learn and not all the garbage that the teachers wanted me to remember. In my 12 years birthday, I asked my mother to gift me a subscription to the "Hot Rod" magazine there was a lot of dragster articles and also how to modify the engines, but the magazine was in English so I searched in a dictionary word by word the meaning to understand it and this was the way I learned English. I never had money or support to make my experiments because I always was punished because my school reports and bad marks but I always got some junk free from the garages to make my projects, I remember one weekend I cleaned a BIG workshop garage near my house and the owner paid me with two aerodynanic aluminum tanks of a surplus WW2 aicraft exactly like the ones used in the first streamliners at Bonneville and I dreamed to make a streamliner rocket car. At 13, I became an avid racer of electric slot car racing cars, this was 1/24 12 V scale cars that raced in long tracks with 10 or 12 slot lines and about 150' long, I started building my own chassis design from welded brass and learned how to rewind and balance the electric motors for racing, an I got the fastest cars and I started to win most of the races and I received some orders for my custom chassis and racing engines. One day my father saw my picture in the news paper because I won the Nationals against all adult men, but in the picture I was wearing the school uniform, I skipped the school this day to go to the races!, this day my father destroyed all my cars, my balancer and tools and sent me to a military high school, this was the end of my slot car racing business. Since 13 years old I worked at the vacations and I did some "business" and with my savings at 14 I bought an old kart frame that I repaired, painted and installed a Clinton engine, with this engine I did all the experiments an engine can tolerate, later I sold this kart and at 15 I bought my first motorcycle, this was a Cerebella 50 cc, this poor bike was also my test lab mice and I did all kind of experiments this was my "racing" bike, ha,ha it was only 50cc. I also was a voluntary "flag man", the ones in the races that show to the pilots in the race the diferent flags depending the situation to signal in case of accident, I did this for several national races and also in two Formula 1 Grand Prix races at Mexico City. At 16 and 17 I played Ice Hockey with the Pepsi team until I broke my nose after a fight. At 18 I bought my first real racing bike, a Bultaco Astro 250 that I raced at the dirt track, later I bought and raced a real bullet, it was the Jawa speedway bike, no brakes, single gear, alcohol and nitro was the fuel and a left boot with a steel sole to balance. In 1974 at the age of 19 I built a Gluhareff pulse jet engine (that I still have), with this engine I did a jet powered kart, I remember that when I started it all the neighbors came out to see what happened because the sound was like a giant plumber torch, this engine when fired became incandescent and it was not as powerful as a rocket so I decided go back to the rockets. I built several solid fuel rocket engines, in the test of one of them I scared to dead my then girl friend Isabel with the explosion of a rocket engine disintegrating in the test stand, I marry her at 20 in 1975 and this same year we saw together here in Mexico City the exhibition run of the rocket cars that most impressed me for the speed and brutal acceleration they reach and I told her this same day "one day I will built one of this" and I have to fulfill my gentleman word! I investigated everything about this kind of rockets, ordered the very few books on the subject and wrote many letters asking for information. I got very little response and some information from the NASA, advising me not to built this rockets and they sent me the plans to build a toy school project rocket! After one year and many tests in 1976 I got my first hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that worked! This is the only picture I have of my first hydrogen peroxide rocket engine, here I am drilling the retain plate for the catalyst with a hand drill because I didn't had any larger tool then, the rocket is shown here with the nozzle taped to the body. This was a 500 lbs thrust engine to be used in a kart, but it was never run because I didn't got the 90% hydrogen peroxide and two years later I was saving money to pay the hospital for Isabel's my daughter birth. After married I studied for air line commercial pilot, getting my title and commercial pilot license in 1979 with bi-motor, instruments IFR and simulator jet training. I love to fly and I have flown almost all kinds of flying machines, like hang gliders, paraplane, gyrocopter, helicopter, all kinds of planes including aerobatic planes like the Decathlon and the Pitts S2-B and even a T-33 old fighter jet, I only need to fly solo in a hot air balloon to complete my curriculum because I already flew the Rocket Belt! This is a small collage of some of my pictures flown many kinds of planes and rotor crafts. From 1981 to 1983 I built the famous "Cascafita" jet boat that won for three years the "Marathon del Rio Balsas" race in his category until it was sunk after a crash. I am a self taught engineer in several branches of engineering including aeronautics and aircraft mechanic with airframe mechanic license. I designed and built an aerobatic airplane that later was sold as the Bradley Aerobat and I produced the kits for Bradley. I built and flew three rocket belts that has been my most important project after my daughters of course! I have also very close to finish a rocket kart, a rocket motorcycle and a rocket car with a steam rocket but my priority number one was to invest all my money and my time to finish the rocket belts project, the problem is that now my pocket and my bank account are in red numbers. In July 2007 I went to Williams International to take a turbines mechanics course of the model FJ44 jet engines line to know all about the inner parts of the turbines and how they are made because I want to design my own very small jet engine with about 300 lbs thrust to make a single place twin jet engine jet plane built in carbon fiber totally built in my shop. Also I had the opportunity to see and touch at the Williams plant the one and only Jet Belt built by Bell and Williams in the 60's and flown by Robert Courter.