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Dymaxion Car:
"The Dymaxion Car was not a car. It was a people mover. It was only my testing of the ground-taxi-ing capability of my omnimedium-transport, wingless-airplane with twin-orientable jet-stilting.
"There are two kinds of birds… the cantilevered wing-spans are the most difficult part of flying. Jets can give an orientable thrust. Airplanes tend to head up into the wind as a result of their streamlining. I knew that the most dangerous tendency of the Dymaxion car was the ground loops brought on by the beautiful fairing of the shape of the body.
"The reason I built an advanced design car rather than an advanced design house was simply because I knew I could draw on the already available inventory of parts from the automotive world. There was nothing like that available for housing.
“Because it was running around on the ground, people called it a car. Our new vertol aircraft are at an intermediate”
