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Bob (not my real pseudonym) (invalid@invalid.invalid) 2015/03/14 01:47

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:07:10 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote:


>
>>On 13/03/2015 20:58, Charles Lindbergh wrote:

>>>
>>> What is that thing in the background of the first picture, looks like a giant
>>> flying water heater?  Must be an experimental VSTOL vehicle.  Landing must have
>>> been a bitch, the pilot turned white as chalk........... :-)
>>>
>>
>>That, Charles, is the height of French ingenuity and impudence, known as
>>the SNECMA C 400 P2 Atar Volant.
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNECMA_Atar_Volant
>>
>>It took a far braver man than I to fly that thing!
>>

>
>
>Wow, but it was exceeded in it's stupidity by the US Army Aerocycle, or as I
>think of it, the flying food processor.
>
>http://www.airvectors.net/avplatfm.html

What could possibly go wrong?  ;^}

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