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[kach22i]

Burt Rutan
Aerospace innovator retired in April, but not before designing a new roadable aircraft
Unveiled: Burt Rutan's Final Creation Is A Flying Car | Popular Science

The Model 367 BiPod is a dual-fuselage, hybrid electric car-plane, which engineers at Scaled took from a preliminary design to first flight in just four months. It made its maiden trip March 30, just before Rutan’s official retirement. The company says it has made several short jaunts off the runway at Mojave, Calif., building up enough speed with the drive train to take off without propellers, which have not been installed yet.

More photos in link:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs...entId=blogDest

Span is 31ft 10in with wings attached, and 7ft 11in with the wings removed and stowed between the fuselages. As an aircraft, it is designed to cruise at 200mph and fly for around 530 miles in higher-power mode and up to 760 miles at 100mph. As a car, the BiPod is designed for freeway speeds, urban driving and garage storage, with a range of 820 miles on a tank of gas and 35 miles on batteries alone.

[kach22i]

Simulation Solves the Stock Car Drafting Quandary
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/product...s-software.htm

[masalai]

Ahem, Propellers? - - - Excellent for the back-seat driver - "'please sit in the other side dear, to balance the aircraft"'..........

[kach22i]

hovercraft from sketch to finished pic by artist tony trowbridge
http://veronicagrimm.blogspot.com/20...1_archive.html


Check out this anti-spray flap
http://www.sicomicrowave.com/hovercraft.html



Soviet Union - The Aist Hovercraft
http://warshipsfromrussia2.blogspot....rcraft_07.html


Some hovercraft pictures/illustrations here:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagene...ransporte.html

[brian eiland]

...text and more photos here

http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-largest...ortress/11461/

[Landlubber]

WOW, that is one serious plane....ta.

[hoytedow]

They must be good quality since there are so many of them.

[kach22i]

Wooden framework braced with Kevlar rovings, covered with a tough heat shrink Dacron skin
http://gaboats.com/
Pictured below, the remarkable 8-pound SweetPea™ can carry a 150+ pound person.

Holding the SweetPea with one hand is long time boat designer and inventor, Platt Monfort.



Anyone built a doped-fabric car body?
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...=183868&page=2

[kach22i]

http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x...2i/Automobile/

[masalai]

Give it a half hour workout on a winding track when the disks are aglow, would make a good photo...

[lewisboats]

Ok...so it isn't a picture but a video...traditional knife making

http://www.wimp.com/traditionalknife/

Unfortunately...I can spend hours on this site...to the detriment of all things "chore"

[GTS225]

Kach! I see you got one of those off the Jalopy Journal! Are you a H.A.M.B.'er, too?

Roger

[kach22i]

I posted my eight Factory Fiver Racing kit car design competition entries in my Photobucket account, been storing some follow up sketches in there too.

Link:
Industrial Design pictures by kach22i - Photobucket

Sample: My most "Retro" of the lot which I call "The Italian".


Each design has a............

1. Side Elevation
2. Side view with driver and engine
3. Top View
4. Front 3/4 view
5. Rear 3/4 view

5 views x 8 designs = 40 drawings.

And here is my idea if it were directly Porsche inspired:

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by GTS225

Kach! I see you got one of those off the Jalopy Journal! Are you a H.A.M.B.'er, too?

Roger

I found that site quite by accident. Been doing some research on fabric covered automobiles.

There have been fabric covered aircraft, hovercraft, boats and more (whole buildings).

Why not a light weight fabric covered car?

BMW did a concept car a couple of years back, but as far as I know nobody is following up on the idea.

[lewisboats]

I drive past a huge fabric covered warehouse over at one of my jobs. It could serve as a hanger for a 707 or something similar. Been there for 3 years or so and survived a number of 80+ mph wind storms.