Troy Widgery has always gone fast. As a four year old, he was racing quarter midget cars, and winning both races and championships. He started racing motorcycles at seven, and by the time he was a teenager at Cherry Creek High School in his native Denver, Colorado, Troy Widgery was jumping out of airplanes. “I was fifteen,” he recalls, “and I was trying to learn all different sports, and skydiving was one of them.”
Troy Widgery kept up with skydiving and became very good at it, but his also took his passion for and channeled it into business. While he was still a student at the University of Colorado, he founded Sky Systems, which very quickly became the leading manufacturer of skydiving helmets and accessories in the country.
In 1993, as a member of the Airmoves skydiving team, Troy Widgery survived a serious plane crash that killed most of those on board. He had been training for the U.S. Skydiving Championships when the tragedy occurred in Southern California.
Three years later, Troy Widgery founded another company. Go Fast Sports. He describes it as not just a company, but a way of life. Go Fast Sports evolved into Go Fast Sports and Beverage, with a line of sports clothing and a beverage called Go Fast Energy Drink.
Now the Go Fast lifestyle has gone further than anyone but Troy Widgery might have imagined. In 2003 he and a couple of friends put their heads together to help Troy realize a lifelong dream. They developed and manufactured the Go Fast Jet Pack, a futuristic flying machine that has already set world records for jet packs. Troy Widgery’s Go Fast Jet Pack flew some fifteen hundred across Colorado’s Royal Gorge at seventy-five miles an hour.
And when he can find the time, Troy Widgery still enjoys skydiving.
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