¶ Omnimedium Transport Sequence (2)
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Omnimedium Transport Sequence:
"All this suggests that we could build an omnimedium vehicle without wings; therefore it could be much lighter and be propelled by twin-angled jet stilts. Omnimedium twin-jet orientable stilts. It could have a turbine jet effect with liquid oxygen for jet propulsion and with wheels. The stilts would converge just above your head. Like stilt walking: when you move the stilt forward it becomes the third compression member which is always initiatable. You’d be hanging from the vectors which converge above your head. A tetrahedron.
“There was not enough capital available for a proper design solution to the housing shortage; nor was there enough capital for the development of a full omnimedium transport system. I saw that the first artifact could suggest only one phase of a full omnimedium transport system. The Dymaxion car was not designed as just a new type of automobile; it was designed to test the ground-taxi-ing quality of an omnimedium transport system. The most dangerous condition of flying is when you make contact with the Earth. The fairing and streamlining has to be superb. It was difficult to control the Dymaxion car with wind on the highway and you had to learn how to manage it.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at Penn Rel videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan’75
