Troy Widgery began Go Fast as a line of sports clothing, but the company later expanded to include the Go Fast Energy Drink and Go Fast Energy Gum. Today, Go Fast has the Go Fast Jet Pack, and Troy Widgery hopes that one day he can have a version of it available for the consumer market.
Troy Widgery has always loved living on the edge, even as a child. When he was four years old, Troy Widgery began racing quarter midget cars, and by the age of seven was racing motorcycles. As a teenager he began skydiving.
When he was a student at the University of Colorado, his passion for skydiving was channeled into business. Troy Widgery founded Sky Systems, a maker of sky diving helmets, and the company quickly became the leading manufacturer of skydiving helmets and accessories.
Troy Widgery founded Go Fast in 1996. The company was originally making sports apparel, but soon added the Go Fast Energy Drink and Go Fast Energy Gum. Go Fast was by then not merely a company, Troy Widgery says, but a lifestyle.
Troy Widgery had always wanted to fly in a jetpack like the one James Bond flew in the movie Thunderball. Go Fast Sports and Beverage Company became the means of realizing that dream. “The goal,” Troy Widgery says, “was to build a lighter, faster, more economical and longer-flying hydrogen peroxide jet pack than the original Rocket Belt built by Bell Aerosystems in the 1960’s, and the successors, which have been based on that model.”
The Go Fast Jet Pack was born. It has established world records for jet packs by flying across Colorado’s Royal Gorge, a distance of fifteen hundred feet at seventy-five miles an hour.
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