I went to a lecture at "After Dark In the Park" at HVNP where this lady
talked and showed pictures of traveling all over the world with her
Metzler inflatable Kayak. It was the best program I ever saw there. It
was while I was living at Volcano, the most wonderful place in the
world.I bou
A piece I read some time ago stated the inflate-a-plane escape pod idea was
scrapped largely because the helicopter recovery of downed pilots was by
1961 able to be demonstrated as having a much higher potential for safe
pilot recovery after bail out, or for recovery of inserted forces.
The "blow
Well, it got that needed engineering, and more:
The wing, tail assembly and pilot’s seat were constructed of a new
rubberized Airmat fabric developed by Goodyear that consisted of joined
layers of inflatable rubber-coated nylon fabric shaped by thousands of
nylon threads that gave it one of the hi
>
> From the Wikipedia page:
>
"The flight test program had a fatal crash when Army aviator Lt. "Pug"
Wallace was killed. The aircraft was in a descending turn when one of the
control cables under the wing came off the pulley and was wedged in the
pulley bracket, locking the stick. The turn tighte
Indeed - what if you at least partially inflated it with helium? We have
stronger, and possibly lighter materials today. How do you make a 4G spar
with fabric and air pressure?
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> That concept fascinates me. A
That concept fascinates me. An inflatable airplane
I can see that being useful on a boat, especially if the plane is capable of
take off and landing from water.
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Charleston SC
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I understand there is only ONE of those planes left in existence.
Interesting that it actually made it to limited production however.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:24 PM, OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Craig via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> >
> > If they had an air compressor
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Craig via Mercedes
wrote:
>
> If they had an air compressor attached to the engine, they could handle
> quite a few arrow holes …
>
>
They did . . .
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*“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of
our people need it sorely o
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:07:53 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
> - the United States Army, ultimately cancelled the project when it
> could not find a "valid military use for an aircraft that could be
> brought down by a well-aimed bow and arrow." Says it all.
If they had an air compressor attach
> On June 1, 2018 at 2:07 PM OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
>
>
> - the United States Army, ultimately cancelled the project when it could
> not find a "valid military use for an aircraft that could be brought down
> by a well-aimed bow and arrow." Says it all.
So that's why they never used hel
- the United States Army, ultimately cancelled the project when it could
not find a "valid military use for an aircraft that could be brought down
by a well-aimed bow and arrow." Says it all.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Forget the Lus
Something interesting I learned the other day -- the guy who had the
company that built Auburn, Duesenberg, and Cord automobiles also owned
the Lycoming engine company.
--R (who spent his first 18 years or so not far from Auburn, and whose
friend's grandfather (??) had the McIntyre truck compa
Forget the Luscombe, Don, you need one of these:
https://youtu.be/gMXfyV_nJSI
-D
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