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I saw spruce goose on the telly tonight
others? airships? man rocket packs?
I saw spruce goose on the telly tonight
others? airships? man rocket packs?
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The flying device of the tailor of Ulm. Had he been successful it would have been mankinds first glider, decades before Otto Lilienthal.
But because of bad thermics his demonstration was a failure. Among the laughter of the bystanders he plunged into the Donau River and afterwards quit all attempts at making a flying device, being turned into a broke and broken man till his death.
Further research in the 20th century has shown that his device could have flown and that his failure really was only due to bad luck.
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PROT didn't fly as well....
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Re: Things that didn't fly
Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
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Did you nod off before the bit where it started flying?The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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As well as what?Originally posted by BeBro
PROT didn't fly as well....
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briefly but my point is more why didn't it get off the ground commercially?Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Did you nod off before the bit where it started flying?
same with airships, a wonderful way to travel, did Hitler have something to do with it?Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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Before the Hindenberg, another Zepplin (the Graf Zeppelin, IIRC) logged 1,000,000 incident-free miles between Germany and Argentina.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
briefly but my point is more why didn't it get off the ground commercially?
same with airships, a wonderful way to travel, did Hitler have something to do with it?
The Hindenberg explosion, followed by the later crashes of the Macon and Acron, put the kabosh on airship travel. After the war, airplanes were far faster and far cheaper.Comment
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but cruise ships survived the TitanicAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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I think because there wasn't much alternative back then for sea travel. The sea liners became more and more pure tourist cruise ships later when air travel per plane was a better option.Last edited by BeBMan; August 5, 2007, 03:56.BlahComment
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Re: Re: Re: Things that didn't fly
Lack of cheap helium.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
briefly but my point is more why didn't it get off the ground commercially?
same with airships, a wonderful way to travel, did Hitler have something to do with it?
Inadvisability of coating exterior skin of airships in a highly flammable aluminium 'paint' and then getting electrostatic charges on it.
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The Americans embargoed sales of helium to the Nazi regime.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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Heh, while we're along the lines of failed 90s food and beverage products...
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PROT?Originally posted by BeBro
PROT didn't fly as well....
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