Anyone deranged enough to try this?

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
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[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

James Robinson > wrote in
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> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote:
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>> http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28&page=inli
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> That's how the Sensenich brothers of propeller fame got started in the
> business, after the cops wouldn't let them run their prop-powered farm
> wagon on county roads in Pennsylvania:
>
> http://www2.sensenich.com/misc/history.htm
>
> They may have been deranged, but it got them into a productive career.
>

Oh there have been lots of airboats and iceboats, but this one is a bit
scary looking to say the least. There was a realy nice looking one on Ebay
from the same period a year or two ago. Very streamlined looking thing and
reasonably well thought out too. This looks like it has umpty ump problems
in actual use. I can't even tell how it's supposed to be operated, exactly.
Presumably it's able to be manuevered n "pitch" but why? It might make a
good tailwheel trainer for the brave.



Bertie

[Blueskies]

"Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message ...
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When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It was like one of those spin around swing rides where
the riders are in swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes faster and faster. This thing was
basically a little fuselage with a 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you really got it
right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around. Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year old
kid! "They don't make them like that anymore" ;-)

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"Blueskies" > wrote in
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> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
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>> http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
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>
> When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It
> was like one of those spin around swing rides where the riders are in
> swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes
> faster and faster. This thing was basically a little fuselage with a
> 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you
> really got it right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around.
> Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year old kid!
> "They don't make them like that anymore" ;-)
>
>

Cool. Never seen one of those. Only the swing seats. I've been tempted
to build the Penguin from the old flying and glider manual...


Bertie

[gatt[_2_]]

"Blueskies" > wrote in message
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Oh, hellyeah! I've already forwarded it to some mechanical engineer
friends.

-c

[Dave[_5_]]

On Mar 7, 5:27*pm, "Blueskies" > wrote:
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in .com...
>
> >http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
> > &page=inline&id=44&catid=4&limitstart=17
>
> When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It was like one of those spin around swing rides where
> the riders are in swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes faster and faster. This thing was
> basically a little fuselage with a 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you really got it
> right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around. Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year old
> kid! "They don't make them like that anymore" * ;-)

I remember those! The one I rode was at an amusement park at Summit
Lake in Akron, Ohio. Great fun!

David Johnson

[William Hung[_2_]]

On Mar 7, 5:27*pm, "Blueskies" > wrote:
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in .com...
>
> >http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
> > &page=inline&id=44&catid=4&limitstart=17
>
> When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It was like one of those spin around swing rides where
> the riders are in swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes faster and faster. This thing was
> basically a little fuselage with a 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you really got it
> right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around. Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year old
> kid! "They don't make them like that anymore" * ;-)


They still have them. I saw one a few years ago, can't remember
exactly where but definitely still around.

Wil

[Blueskies]

"William Hung" > wrote in message
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On Mar 7, 5:27 pm, "Blueskies" > wrote:
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in .com...
>
> >http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
> > &page=inline&id=44&catid=4&limitstart=17
>
> When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It was like one of those spin around swing rides
> where
> the riders are in swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes faster and faster. This thing was
> basically a little fuselage with a 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you really got it
> right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around. Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year
> old
> kid! "They don't make them like that anymore" ;-)


They still have them. I saw one a few years ago, can't remember
exactly where but definitely still around.

Wil


I've been looking...Thanks for the validations folks.
"The older I get the greater I was"

[wright1902glider]

On Mar 8, 6:26*am, "Blueskies" > wrote:
> "William Hung" > wrote in message
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> ...
> On Mar 7, 5:27 pm, "Blueskies" > wrote:
>
> > "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in .com...
>
> > >http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
> > > &page=inline&id=44&catid=4&limitstart=17


Ever heard of a Russian guy named Igor Sikorsky? Air-sleds were how he
got his start too.

Harry Frey
Purveyor of fine lost, and somewhat useless, aviation trivia

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On Mar 7, 3:27 pm, "Blueskies" > wrote:
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in .com...
>
> >http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
> > &page=inline&id=44&catid=4&limitstart=17
>
> When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It was like one of those spin around swing rides where
> the riders are in swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes faster and faster. This thing was
> basically a little fuselage with a 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you really got it
> right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around. Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year old
> kid! "They don't make them like that anymore" ;-)

They have something close at Knoebels Amusement Park in Elysburg, PA,
but it looks more like a boat than an airplane.

http://www.knoebels.com/images/rides/Flyer.jpg

[Blueskies]

> wrote in message ...
> On Mar 7, 3:27 pm, "Blueskies" > wrote:
>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in .com...
>>
>> >http://packmag.net/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=28
>> > &page=inline&id=44&catid=4&limitstart=17
>>
>> When I was a kid, the was a ride at Buckeye lake amusement park. It was like one of those spin around swing rides
>> where
>> the riders are in swings and whole thing spins and the riders swing out as it goes faster and faster. This thing was
>> basically a little fuselage with a 'rudder' you could deflect right and left as you spun around. If you really got it
>> right you could almost do a wingover as it spun around. Not a very good description, but it was a blast for a 9 year
>> old
>> kid! "They don't make them like that anymore" ;-)
>
> They have something close at Knoebels Amusement Park in Elysburg, PA,
> but it looks more like a boat than an airplane.
>
> http://www.knoebels.com/images/rides/Flyer.jpg

That is pretty close, but the old ones I remember didn't actually have a rudder, the control surface was in the front,
so a canard-rudder-like thing?

May need to go check out that place in PA.

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In the 1932 "Flying and Gilder Manual" there's an article and plans
for a "penguin" that is said to suitable for boys. It's the same sort
of thing. I think the idea of a air sled on skiis is not quite as
useful today because there's less ice, but the idea of an airboat
that's an S6B without wings is something I find curiously attractive.

One thing that puts everyone off is the obvious danger of the idea.
To the men and boys who looked at the plans and who may have built it,
there was a lot less danger. To be safe, bystanders need only stay
away from it. We, as a society, seem to have lost that ability to
avoid danger. There's a place for a study of the changes over time
in the perception of danger.