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Article #672Re: AERO-CAR??
From: Aaron Sawdey
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:55
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:55
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In <69993@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: >There was an article in _Smithsonian_ magazine on this, about five years ago. >The one which was most successful was produced in small numbers back in >the 1950's. I believe it was a pusher design, and that it used some sort >of unorthodox system to transfer power to the propellor. This was its >main weakness, because it made the plane a maintenance hog. >One of these planes was used for short time by a Seattle radio station >to report on traffic conditions. One of the people who flew in it >said it was fun to honk the horn at seagulls. When I was at Oshkosh '91 (I think -- could have been '90) somebody did a 5-minute demo of an Aero-Car. The humorous point was when he put on the turn-signal to signal his turn to final approach.
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