Weird transport.

[onetrack]

If I didn't know better, I would've said, "your Saudi Petro Dollars at work" - but I don't know any better.

 

What I do know, is they prefer everything gold plated.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/3-million-mobile-home-on-sale-in-dubai-2013-6

[nomadpete]

If I didn't know better,  I'd say Onetrack has developed  a dreadful stutter.

[onetrack]

Seeing what Saudis do with my petrol money, regularly pissing it up on gold-plated transport, is enough to give me a stutter!!  

[old man emu]

Here's a flight of fancy:

[facthunter]

I wouldn't fancy flying in it. Nev

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[pmccarthy]

8 hours ago, old man emu said:

Here's a flight of fancy:

He's buying a stairway to heaven.

[nomadpete]

The designer achieved everything that all subsequent aerocars have achieved.....

 

Neither a practical car, nor a practical aircraft.

[old man emu]

This designers smiled with a ring of confidence when this flew:

 

 

The aircraft is the Lee-Richards annular monoplane, built by  Cedric Lee and G. Tilghman Richards in the UK. The circular wing was not their idea. Following a series of patents on circular-wing aircraft taken out by Williband Franz Zelger and Isaac Henry Storey, John George Aulsebrook Kitchen built an annular-wing biplane but was unable to fly it. Cedric Lee bought the biplane and the patent and also later acquired Zelger's patent. Tilghman Richards joined Lee in 1910 and together they finished the aeroplane, fitting a 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome Omega engine in the front. This wouldn't flywell, and was eventually destroyed when the hangar it was in collapsed in a windstorm. Lee and Richards continued experimenting with models. Model tests of a new design at the National Physics Laboratory gave promising results, suggesting that an annular monoplane would be aerodynamically stable and have benign stalling characteristics.

 

The wing itself took the form of a flat ring or annulus, curved to form an aerofoil shape in section and with upward dihedral raising it progressively towards the tips. The leading edge of the front portion was initially curved downwards to promote vortex lift over the side and rear surfaces. The wing was rigged with a significant angle of incidence, the forward section being level with the top of the fuselage and the aft section with the lower fuselage. The column of air flowing through the central hole was intended to improve the wing's stability in flight. There was provision for two crew. An 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome engine located in the front, driving a tractor propeller provided the thrust. The undercarriage was a tricycle arrangement.

 

Three prototypes were built and proved to be very stable and pleasant to fly. Further development was stalled by WWI

[Marty_d]

6 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

He's buying a stairway to heaven.

But it flies like lead zeppelin. 

[facthunter]

Further development would be stalled from having a rethink about it. IF it looks really wrong , it most likely is.. Is there anything in nature resembling it acknowledging a Jumbo sized BEE would never get off the  ground.   Nev

[onetrack]

The Arkansans sure can't make any claims to advanced aviation ideas. Get a look at Prof Zerbes first aircraft design attempt!

I love the way the propellor shaft ends in space in the centre of the machine! - like, "we'll get to the engine design and placement, later! - let's finish the wings and frame first!"

 

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/zerbe-air-sedan-3671/

 

 

[Marty_d]

You'd think nature would serve as their guide.  You don't see many birds with 12 wings.

[facthunter]

Their larger feathers at the tips act as good control mechanisms. That multi plane effort is a shocker. It probably wouldn't even work as a kite.   Nev

[nomadpete]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

Encyclopaedia o farkansas.net

Are they farkan kiddin me?

[nomadpete]

33 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Their larger feathers at the tips act as good control mechanisms. That multi plane effort is a shocker. It probably wouldn't even work as a kite.   Nev

And kites were a great way to prove concepts - it worked well for Hargraves.