fubar said:
william said:
wow - same here. does yours have the wings?
PA.
... and, as always, TIA.
- denny laine BHJ
{ sipping coffee }
{ eating donut }
This might be the best car since Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
- albert r. broccoli foob
{ iyp }
{ eyeing roast }
a sad tale? perhaps.
but a tale of derring-do reflecting man's eternal quest for more - never to be satisfied with the ordinary; the status quo - indeed.
{ LFS grabs mug and stares out the window somewhat misty eyed and reflects on man's eternal striving }
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The Flying Pinto That Killed Its Inventor
Matt Sonjak
The flying car has been invented over and over again. The problem is, each iteration has fallen somewhere on the line between amusing failure and outright disaster. Perhaps the most infamous example was the AVE Mizar, a.k.a. the "Flying Pinto," which killed its inventor on an early voyage.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Henry Smolinski was born in 1933, one of eight children in a Polish American family living in Cuyahoga, Ohio. After attending the Northrop Institute of Technology's aeronautical engineering school, he began his career at North American Aviation as a structural engineer working on jet engine and aircraft design. In 1959, he joined Rocketdyne as a project engineer, working on their missile development and aerospace programs.
After a decade at Rocketdyne, Smolinsky left to form his own company with his friend, Hal Blake. They founded Advanced Vehicle Engineers in Van Nuys, California, in 1971, expressly to design and build a flying car. Their first and only model was AVE Mizar (named after one of the stars that form the Big Dipper's handle).
The idea was simple enough: take a regular car and a small airplane and modify them both, so a person could drive the car to an airport, fit the car and the waiting airframe together, take off from the runway, come down a few hundred miles away at another air strip, detach from the airframe and then drive the car away.
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read on, if you dare.
dare to dream, that is.
{ sipping coffee }
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31341/flying-pinto-killed-its-inventor Fetterman2024
