Collected Wisdom of an Aircar Buff

[beamjockey]

On 19 February 2001, the Aurora Beacon News published a column by Benjie Hughes consisting almost entirely of out-of-context quotes by a single person.

Collected wisdom of an aircar buff

Comments

[ffutures]

WTF is the first picture?

[mmcirvin]

I don't know, but I think my reaction to the prospect of riding it would be "You first".

Re: de Lackner DH-5 Aerocycle

[ffutures]

Wow...

I've been interested in the Victorian idea of the Aeronef (flying machine supported on multiple rotors) for a long time, didn't realise that anyone had ever got that close to building something like it.

[ext_85623]

Hey, not only did they fly the jeep more than once, they tested an even bigger one with a TANK.

[serge_lj]

a Ford Pinto with plane wings and an engine, first built in 1973: "This looked as if it could really amount to something. Until the accident."

Feel free to insert Pinto jokes.

[neowolf2]

Skylab landed on it!

[tanac]

Lovely early-morning read. Thanks :)

[n6tqs]

What happened to the developments where the garage was a hangar and the streets were taxiways? Did any of them get built?

[ffutures]

Wasn't there an episode of CSI set in such a community?

[n6tqs]

I'm certainly not the person to ask- I've never seen any CSI shows.

[beamjockey]

Can't answer the CSI question, but yes, there were a number of communities built during the aviation boom. I've visited one very near here: Naper Aero Estates, with a hundred houses connected by taxiways. And a neighborhood aerobatic team that performs in T-34s at airshows.

Here's a Web site devoted to "residential airparks."