How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
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How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
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Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#2Reminds me of Lindsay Technical books. Used to love reading those things when I was a kid.
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#3Reminds me of a real version of what this ad in every Boy's Life magazine promised for at least 30 years. I always wondered if the mail-order hovercraft plans encouraged or dashed the dreams of kids across the US for over 2 generations...
https://books.google.com/books?id=WRJwbbbmYCUC&pg=PA68&lpg=P...
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#4When I was a kid my buddy and I built so ething like this with plywood, a dozen garbage bags, about a mile of duct tape and three vacuum cleaners. Mom was not amused when she saw how I I’d cut up her vacuum cleaner hose.
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#5What i like is how simple and easy it is to read the documentation :)
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#6Reminds me of Lindsay Technical books. Used to love reading those things when I was a kid. https://www.youroldtimebookstore.com
Wow! I learnt that FAA at some point stood for Federal Alcohol Administration: https://www.youroldtimebookstore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/YOTB2...
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#7Junkyard wars built a Hovercraft
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#8When I was a kid my buddy and I built so ething like this with plywood, a dozen garbage bags, about a mile of duct tape and three vacuum cleaners. Mom was not amused when she saw how I I’d cut up her vacuum cleaner hose.
Please tell us that now you work for NASA/JPL or something related to engineering :)
That would make the sacrifice of that hoover totally forgivable!!
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#9When I was a kid my buddy and I built so ething like this with plywood, a dozen garbage bags, about a mile of duct tape and three vacuum cleaners. Mom was not amused when she saw how I I’d cut up her vacuum cleaner hose.
Did it work?
Re: How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
#10When I was a kid my buddy and I built so ething like this with plywood, a dozen garbage bags, about a mile of duct tape and three vacuum cleaners. Mom was not amused when she saw how I I’d cut up her vacuum cleaner hose.
Please tell us that now you work for NASA/JPL or something related to engineering :) That would make the sacrifice of that hoover totally forgivable!!
I write novels, had a magic prank show on A&E and I just starred in a special for Discovery Channel involving great whites sharks.
So it kind of worked out.