http://cgi.ebay.ca/Aerocar-N103D-Flying-Pl...2|39:1|240:1318

I'm gonna start smoking crack so all of my junk will be valuable

3.5 mil for a plane last inspected in 1976.

YEAH OK!!!!

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I'm gonna start smoking crack so all of my junk will be valuable
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The barn door is open...the horse is loose....
I will see if Zach is awake

BTW, I saw this car on the discovery channel...here is a little fact

N103D, one of only four remaining Aerocar Model One Flying Automobiles. Just one prototype and four Aerocars were ever produced. One was destroyed. Two are in permanent museum collections. This pristine, fully functional 1956 Aerocar Model One is one of two in private ownership.


Rich

^^^^
I'm not exactly sure what I have just been implicated in. I am going to assume that it is suitably awesome, and go to bed knowing that my awesomeness had been observed.

Zach

damn you must be tired...

A simple setup from Scotty...and you.....ahhh never mind..go to bed.

Rich

Infants will addle your brain. I'm living proof.

I'm going to go find a pillow before my forehead smacks the keyboard.

Zach

Would be fun though. Not 3.5 mil worth...But fun.

That thing is dying for a Lycoming 540 and a 52" variable pitch prop :-)

Careful Jake, a variable pitch prop is probably what killed Amelia Airhart. They suspect she never adjusted her prop pitch!

Man that is awesome!!! not for the price but you got to love it... inovation at its best. I could make short work of my bay area commute with that

Now If I could find one about a few orders of magnitude cheaper ...

Sounds like the "Awsomely Extremely Rare Porsche Convertable" on Ebay where someone wants $86,000 for a 914 found in grandma's garage.

Try the new one on for size...the Lotis Elise Aerocar. www.aerocar.com

Don't forget this classic

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It's o.k. Zach, Rich has some fascination with the color red, and my junk. It worries me ....but not too much, he's not very close to me. I just hope I never spill any red paint on my junk, he'll be right there before I know it

I seem to remember a saying that went something like this: "when you try to make something that is 1/2 this and 1/2 that you usually end up with something that is less than 1/2 as good as either"

That said, has anyone ever seen on the discovery channel way back when (1990's) an invention that was like a homebuild plane but it only flew 10 feet off the ground on a cushion of air created by the body and wing angle...it looked a bit like it had short bat wings with a boat shaped body...really cool....of course it may have been a crack enduced dream of mine

...540 people killed in Wyoming by a 52" vibrator welding bitch cop?

what did he saayyy....ahh never mind.

You mean the Ecronoplane, invented by the Russians in the 50's-60's. Any/all others is just a copy of their invention, although it's said that Alexander Graham Bell may have built something like it.

http://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1CHMI_en...p;q=ecronoplane

I'm pretty sure most newer planes have a self governing pitch prop. I know ours does anyway. I know where you can get a plane that flies much much better and will require much less maintenance than that one earlier in the post....

http://www.soloy.com/Aircraft+for+Sale/default.aspx

I'm pretty sure I'd get a raise if I could sell one, but I really doubt there are too many people here looking for a turbine powered Cessna.

http://www.hydrofoils.org/

I had this guy as a prof at WSU. You want to talk about an unassuming guy... real monotone and boring in class, but he has done and seen some pretty incredible stuff.

Okay it drove me nuts enough to look for what I was "trying" to convey. I believe it was called the Airfish and it is a type of vehicle designated as a "Flarecraft"...but the version I saw was definitely a homebuilt...they apparently have a max altitude of like 3 meters or so....google it and see what you find!

I ekranoplan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYmSnpQ360