HOW I BUILT THE Flying Cart Vintage Projects（我如何建立飞行车年产的项目）.pdf

HOW I BUILT THE Flying Cart By Hubert Luckett OURE almost ready to believe in flying carpets when you open the throttle and see a 200-lb. load float eerily off the ground . Tip the handles slightly and you have to brace yourself to keep this wheel-less Flying Cart from skit- tering down the drive faster than you want CONTINUED Thats a 200-lb . load — four 504b . bag s — entirely supported on a cushion of air . 162 POPULAR SCIENCE JULY I960 Plywood, plastic, and aluminum make the airframe FINISHED HULL showing how fan shroud and ALUMINUM IS FASTENED to inner curve of struts rounded contours in the plenum chamber ar e by bending a flange over flat against the ply- obtained, using sawed-to-shape plywood covered wood, and securing with stapling gun . Alumi- with a skin of sheet aluminum an d plastic film . num is slit every 1-1/2 to make a smooth bend . to follow. More—you can easily trundle a 100-lb. load across a soft, soggy lawn with this machine and never leave a mark . The Flying Cart is a true ground-effect machine (GEM) . It has no wheels. It glides on a cushion of compressed air supplied by a modified chain- saw engine and a four-bladed wooden prop . I built the airframe of ordinary lumberyard materials for $59.75. If youre well supplied with plywood scraps you can cut that figure in half. Engine and props are from an outboard air-drive unit sold by Airboa