Hi friends,
this picture is again from the archive of the Dutch newspaper “Het Leven”. One of several efforts to create a “windmill aircraft”. It would surprise me if it ever did the least hop. This time I would like to have minimum information about it. Do you know anything? The apparatus is of French origin, so were both inventors (van Zandt contrary to his Dutch/Flemish family name).
Thank you for answers!
Regards, RT
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th November 2013 at 15:48
As daft as the concept looks something similar has flown (on a smaller scale) in recent times.
(Do a search for ‘Fan Wing UAV’)
By: Romantic Techno - 20th November 2013 at 14:37
Thank you Eric Munk!:applause:
Regards, RT
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th November 2013 at 10:06
Looking at that photo, it missed a couple of clumps, but otherwise it’s done a cracking job of mowing the grass…:D
Like you, on first seeing the photograph, I thought it was some form of agricultural machinery…. Second thoughts, it could have escaped from a textile mill!!!
Planemike
By: Lazy8 - 20th November 2013 at 09:36
Looking at that photo, it missed a couple of clumps, but otherwise it’s done a cracking job of mowing the grass…
😀
By: ericmunk - 20th November 2013 at 09:22
Photo in database here:
http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/SFA03:SFA022812005
There’s some e-bay photos of them around where they pose with the machine, which was apparently built in New York and meant to take off vertically.
Newspaper article here: http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/26140090/
Apparently it was called the Air Truck or Air Phantom.
and this is my favourite article: a bio on the two Frenchmen who came to the US: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19810421&id=G6glAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wfMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1299,93747
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November 20, 2013 at 9:05 am