¶ Omnimedium Transport Sequence
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a 120-degree crescent with single-tail focus, thus able to use its secondary tail to go across currents. So I made the second Dymaxion with its rear wheel on an extensible boom that retracts when the car slows down. It went 122 m.p.h. I just wanted to see whether the principles were right. It had a beautiful faired underbelly. And the car could waltz: it really could waltz.
“I worked with Starling Burgess. He understood that the navy is world and the army is local. At one stage we had what Burgess called the ‘flying bedstead’: he thought it could work at low altitude, just above water, with JATO and ram-jets. The ideal would be to put humans in harness with jet stilts.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan’75
