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Cars of Futures Past – The Taylor Aerocar
An Aerocar Series I prototype. Photo by Lotzman Katzman.
The dream of flying cars has likely been with us since the first automotive traffic jam, but making the leap from concept to certification and beyond proved impossible for many budding inventors. Though today's Terrafugia Transition may ultimately prove to be the first successful roadable aircraft, in the 1950s it seemed as if that distinction would go to the Aerocar, invented by Moulton (Molt) Taylor.
To be clear, Taylor didn't pioneer the flying car prototype; in fact, the first such model was likely the Curtiss Autoplane of 1917, which proved incapable of anything resembling true flight. It wasn't until 1937 that the ungainly looking Waterman Arrowbile proved that flying cars were possible, though this model never progressed beyond the prototype stage.
The post-war years saw a resurgence in interest about flying cars, perhaps because the Second World War had somewhat demystified the science of flight. In 1946, Robert Edison Fulton Jr. debuted his Fulton Airphibian flying car, which featured a fuselage that could be split in two; the front half became a primitive automobile, while the assembly that formed the permanent wings and tail was intended to be left behind at the airport. Though the Airphibian never progressed beyond the prototype stage either, it did influence the thinking of aeronautical engineer Molt Taylor.
Taylor thought the concept of leaving half the vehicle behind was flawed, so he penned a design that featured a folding, towable wing and tail assembly. Designed to be converted from automobile to airplane by a single person in under five minutes, the Taylor Aerocar saw its first official test flight in December of 1949.
Still primitive by automobile standards of the day, the Aerocar featured an air-cooled Lycoming flat-four engine, positioned over the rear wheels. A three-speed manual transmission provided drive to the front wheels, and this road transmission was simply placed into neutral when the Aerocar was in flight mode. Part of the conversion process from automobile to airplane involved the fitting of a tail cone and propeller assembly, which was driven by a power take-off located behind the rear license plate.
To save weight, aluminum was used in construction of the frame, wings, tail and ailerons, while the fuselage was covered in fiberglass panels. The Aerocar's steering wheel operated the front wheels on the ground, but was also linked to ailerons and elevator flaps to provide bank and pitch control in flight. On the floorboard, positioned outside the clutch and brake pedals, were rudder control pedals, and the throttle (for both road use and flight) consisted of a dashboard-mounted knob.
At the end of a flight segment, converting from airplane to car was as simple as deploying wing-mounted braces and wheels, folding the wings back alongside the tail superstructure, stowing the propeller, disengaging the tail assembly and controls and rotating the tail into the towing position. Once home, the tail portion could be parked, leaving the Aerocar's cabin to double as a compact car.
Early development of the Aerocar continued throughout 1950, and its first long flight (from Salem, Oregon, to Longview, Washington) took place on August 29, 1950. Thanks to Taylor's relentless efforts at promotion (on television, as well as at auto and aircraft shows), rising consumer interest allowed him to attract investors to back his flying car concept.
Incorporation allowed Taylor to raise an additional $750,000 via sale of company stock, and in May of 1954 an improved version (that solved the issue of vibration in the long propeller shaft) was submitted to Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) for certification. On December 14, 1956, the Aerocar became the first certified airplane that could also be driven on U.S. highways, a feat that has yet to be duplicated.
Though Taylor continued to build Aerocar Series I prototypes into 1960, finding a manufacturer willing to construct the Aerocar at anything resembling a reasonable price proved elusive. While public interest was rampant in the 1950s, part of that stemmed from a projected selling price in early literature of between $3,000 and $4,000. Later literature would revise that price upward to "under $10,000," but Taylor still had difficulty finding a suitable manufacturing partner.
In 1961, Aerocar International Corporation penned a deal with Ling-Temco-Vought to produce the Aerocar, but the agreement was short-lived. Some blame its failure on the inability to attract the 500 buyers needed to implement production, while others attribute the demise of the partnership to the use of deposit money for advertising instead of tooling. Whatever the reason, the Aerocar never saw series production, though Taylor spent the rest of his life building improved prototypes (like the Series II and Series III Aerocars) and seeking a manufacturing partner.
Though the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s delivered the promise of flying cars in magazines, movies and television shows, the reality of stress-free commutes above the sweltering stench of traffic jams never quite materialized. The Aerocar kept that dream alive for many, not just its inventor, and the groundwork that it built may one day lead to a practical and (somewhat) affordable flying car.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Aerocar
While many a visionary attempted to invent and market a flying car, the most well known among them is Molt Taylor, who succeeded in building five operational Aerocars in the 1950s. Your best bet to see one nowadays is in a museum, but your best bet to fly one would be to purchase the 1954 Aerocar, N101D, an original and fully functional example for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description:
This amazing FAA licensed Flying Car is in flyaway, driveway condition. It is the one you read about as a kid in Popular Mechanics and have seen in hundreds of other magazines, books, TV shows and films ever since.
Taylor AEROCAR, License N-101D, was built in 1954. It is a testament to American ingenuity at a time and place when everything was possible – even flying cars. Only five were produced, of which N-101D is an outstanding, airworthy and all-original example.
This historic flying car is Certificated in the FAA's Standard Airworthiness Category. When used as an automobile, the AEROCAR's wings fold back and can be towed behind the car. In about 10 minutes, the wings can be folded back into place and the car again becomes an airplane.
The AEROCAR features side-by-side seating for two. Advanced for its time, most of the fuselage skin is of composite material and the car is front-wheel drive. In flight, the wings are high and unobtrusive. Powered by a Lycoming O-320 Engine, the propeller is mounted at the end of a long tail cone, the latter angled up for propeller clearance. Cruise speed is about 100 MPH. Takeoff speed is 55 MPH, and the airplane is controlled by the same steering wheel as is used for driving.
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Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Aerocar
Inspired by our Mystery of the Cuban skycar post from earlier this week (handily solved by reader Marilyn Stine – thanks, Marilyn!), we're going to see what we can do with Aerocar as the subject for this week's Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge.
Unlike the last few weeks, I will be in the office and checking comments throughout the day, so we should be back to our normal Six Degrees routine this week, and there will be no interruptions in the game. Which means we're back to the fox-and-hound format.
If you're new to this game, it's played like this: The first person to respond to this post gets to suggest another automaker (the fox) that must be connected to Aerocar (the hound) in six degrees or less. Whoever can answer that suggestion gets to suggest the next automaker (a new fox) to connect to Aerocar, and so forth. As always, a degree of separation consists of one company owning another, merging with another or sharing another's parts.
UPDATE: marmer has suggested Doble, while andre roy suggested Hupp. Consider either of the two as your first fox.
UPDATE: marmer answered andre roy's Hupp, which leaves Doble still on the table.
UPDATE: FleetwoodFancier gave us a Doble answer in nine steps, while marmer showed us a five-step path.
UPDATE (22.March 2010): Well, now here's a giant coincidence. In researching the Gama Goat, I discovered it was built first by Chance-Vought Aircraft, then later by Ling-Temco-Vought. And while digging around in "A Drive in the Clouds," I saw that Molt Taylor signed a contract with Ling-Temco to produce the Aerocar should orders for the Aerocar materialize. Considering that the Gama Goat prototype used a Corvair engine (and the production version used a GMC three-cylinder diesel), that opens up all sorts of connection possibilities.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1938 Curtiss Aerocar
Life got you down? Itching to travel? Tired of seeing your neighbor scratching his butt when you leave the house every morning? What you need, son, is a house on wheels. Yes, sell that boring ol' house on a foundation and put your money into mobility, maybe something like a 1938 Curtiss Aerocar, towed by a one-of-a-kind Chevrolet-based streamlined tractor, currently for sale on Hemmings.com for $250,000. From the seller's description:
Unrestored original ,barn find in very good condition.Only 12 known, 1 of 2 that is currently driving.One of the most rare camping trailers in the world.
A little googling turns up a page on coachbuilt.com on Standard Carriage Works of Los Angeles, which built the truck on the Chevrolet 1-ton chassis before sending the truck to Coral Gables, Florida, to pick up the Aerocar trailer:
The second (streamlined fifth-wheel tractor that Standard Carriage built in 1938) was built for pioneer balloonist and aviator Augustus Post, a close personal friend of Glen Curtiss, the designed and manufacturers of the Aerocar 5th wheel trailer. Built using a 1938 Chevrolet 1-ton truck cab and chassis, Standard Carriage Works constructed an attractive ash-framed body which included a large storage area behind the driver's compartment. The rear sleeping quarters and 4-cylinder generator found on the Reo (the first streamlined fifth-wheel tractor built in 1938) were not included on the budget-priced Chevrolet tow vehicle.
The vehicle was later used by the Los Angeles Biltmore to transport hotel guests on weekend excursions. It was later acquired by the Santa Monica branch of Republic Van Lines after which it was purchased by Hollywood stuntman Robert Breeze (aka Wolf River Bob).
Curtiss also has a page on coachbuilt.com, but I've yet to come across an address for that cool building in the background of the Coral Gables photo.
BTW, there's more photos of the tractor-trailer combo on the seller's website.
"This, officer, is not a truck. It is a housecar." The incomplete history of the Brooks Stevens motorhomes
Photos courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum, except where noted.
One of them participated in one of the first live television broadcasts. Some of them appear to have pioneered a front-wheel-drive system decades before the GMC Motorhome. At least two of them still exist, one of which recently came up for sale. But nobody seems to know the complete story of the various motorhomes that Brooks Stevens designed.
About all that anybody can agree on is that the predecessor to the motorhomes, Stevens's 1936 Zephyr land yacht, while not a direct template for the motorhomes, certainly set their tone. Built for millionaire playboy Bill Plankinton, the land yacht used an International as the basis for the tractor and a Curtis Aerocar as the basis for the trailer. Both featured blimp-like rounded ends and tall cross sections to allow for standing and free movement inside and both warranted their own design patents (D107268 and D109161).
The land yacht had more than a passing resemblance to the Western Printing sales van, which Stevens designed in about 1939 or 1940 for the Western Printing and Lithograph Company after the president of the company saw the land yacht on the street. Built on a short wheelbase, probably atop an International chassis like the land yacht, Stevens's designer James Rohan laid out the interior of the van with shelves lining both sides of the midsection, with a conference table in the back portion.
Photo from the Donald Wood collection.
Or, should we say, vans. According to Glenn Adamson's Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World, the president of Western Printing ordered a fleet of unspecified size, and over the next decade 26 variations on the Western Printing van, all based on International COE chassis, hit the road. The 1941 Miller delivery van above may have been one of them; Adamson noted that some of the 26 used refrigerated bodies, and its lines, especially toward the rear, are consistent with the Western Printing van(s). A Brooks Stevens patent filed in July 1938 (D118221) shows yet another variation on the same general van design.
Stevens was rather proud of the idea of a mobile salesroom, devoting a lengthy paragraph to it in his 1942 essay on what the post-war car would look like:
This method of demonstration and selling has been through the preliminary stages. Five years ago, we were commissioned by a client to design and produce an experimental vehicle for this purpose. Each succeeding year has brought improved models of which a number have been custom-built and put into service. A complete office and showroom on one motorized wheelbase within a length limitation of twenty feet, bumper to bumper, is the result. These sales cars are held to twenty feet in length to facilitate parking in downtown areas. The units have six feet two inches headroom, a comfortable lounge for customers, storage space for samples, a radio, heaters, fans, and the other comforts of an office. The control cabin forward, partitioned from the sales room, provides the salesman or chauffeur with air-liner vision and safety of operation. Note here the similarity to the windshield prophecy we have just made in the postwar car and the rear engine car. Powered by a standard V8 engine and utilizing tubular steel construction throughout, we have light weight and flexibility. Top speeds of 85 miles per hour are safely possible, and performance costs have shown an average of 15 miles per gallon of fuel. This type of project is applicable to many businesses, and may supplant the trailer as a mobile home because of its ease and safety of operation.
He even designed at least one larger sales van, apparently based on a transit bus, for Western Printing.
Nevertheless, Stevens returned to the motorhome idea for his next iteration on the design. Approached by Herbert F. Johnson of SC Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin, to build a display vehicle for the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Stevens imagineered a vehicle that Johnson could use on research trips. Specifically, as Adamson wrote,
Like Plankinton's pleasure cruiser, it was fully stocked with amenities, including three bunks, running water, a bathroom, a gas-powered refrigerator and stove, a foldout desk, a wax-testing lab, and air conditioning. The somewhat farfetched premise for the vehicle's construction was that it would be driven to Brazil to conduct field research on ran carnauba waxes, drawn from tropical palm trees. This was, however, mainly a pretext for a brilliant publicity stunt.
Stevens's design drawings for the Johnson Wax motorhome show a front-mounted engine, as expected, (in this case a flathead Ford V-8) but also a front-wheel-drive system that used a transfer case mounted off the tail end of the transmission that directed power through a prop shaft to the front axle. Presumably, this allowed him to design more headspace into the motorhome without making the vehicle any taller than need be.
Stevens and Johnson drove the research vehicle to New York in July of 1940 and, as Johnson's son related to Adamson, got pulled over in Manhattan for driving a commercial vehicle on Fifth Avenue. "This, officer, is not a truck," Stevens said. "It is a housecar." They then made their way to the fairgrounds, where NBC interviewed Stevens about it for a live broadcast.
Like the Zephyr land yacht, the Johnson Wax housecar ended up serving the country during World War II. Plankinton used the former in his role as an army recruiter traveling the state of Wisconsin. Johnson donated the latter to the Civilian Defense's Emergency Medical Service, which made some slight cosmetic alterations to it during its transformation into a mobile blood bank.
It appears Stevens did design at least one more housecar almost exactly like the Johnson Wax housecar, this one for Winfield M. "Win" Campbell, an avid traveler and pilot who headed up the Campbell Baking Company. Campbell may very well have been using it when he died in 1943 while vacationing in British Columbia. Given the extreme rake to the windshield, the Ledbetter-customized Western Flyer may have originated as the Campbell housecar.
But that only scratches the surface. Whether they were part of the Western Printing fleet or designed for some other reason, we've come across at least a couple other variations on the zeppelin-style van/motorhome. The ones above, medium-wheelbase 10-window variants shorter than the Johnson Wax motorhome but longer than the Western Printing sales vans, are a complete mystery. From studying the photos, they appear to have been outfitted as sales and display vans, and at least two were built.
The other variant about the same length as the Western printing sales vans, but with eight windows and a nose less rounded and more anteater-ish than the other variations. As with the 10-window variant, it appears more than one was built, with varying locations for the side doors. One other such vehicle survives today, a recently restored eight-window Clipper that went on display in the American Road exhibit at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee this summer.
Photo courtesy Harley-Davidson Museum.
Photo courtesy Harley-Davidson Museum.
The restorer of the stock eight-window variant, a California-based motorhome collector, said his is finished as a motorhome and sits on a flathead-powered rear-wheel-drive chassis. He said he's not sure how many were built, perhaps more than a dozen (Howdy Ledbetter claims three), but hasn't seen any others like his and Ledbetter's. Adamson claims the tractor from the Zephyr land yacht still exists, but the trailer disintegrated while Stevens had the land yacht stored outside his museum.
All that said, we're left with a number of holes in the story. Who did Stevens design the eight-window and 10-window variants for? How many of each of the variants were built? Who built them for Stevens (a commenter on The Old Motor's post about the Western Clippers claims the LeMoon Truck Company of Chicago, which quit building trucks in 1939 to become a Federal truck dealer)? And what happened to the rest of the Stevens motorhome variants?
UPDATE (6.October 2014): We came across this rendering of the Miller High Life truck done up as a housetruck, done by Brad Cornelius.
A flying car from Ford? It almost happened
Taylor Aerocar III at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Photo by JimCollaborator.
In 1973, when a reporter asked longtime Ford spokesman Eugene Koch about the AVE Mizar, the flying car built from a Ford Pinto that eventually – and literally – crashed and burned, Koch called it an interesting idea, but doubted that Ford would soon offer wings and a propeller as options. That's likely because Ford itself had only a few years prior looked into the possibility of offering a flying car to the public.
While Ford's designers undoubtedly pitched at least a few flying car proposals in the jet-age 1950s, it took some political influence to get Ford's brass to even take the idea semi-seriously. As told in Jake Schultz's A Drive in the Clouds, that political influence came in the person of Douglas Thoms, who headed up the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the early 1970s. Before being appointed to that position, Thoms had served as the director of the motor vehicle department in Washington state, where he became familiar with Longview, Washington's, Molt Taylor and his Aerocar. Enough so that he mentioned to Lee Iacocca, then president of Ford Motor Company, that Ford oughta take a look at the Aerocar.
What prompted Iacocca to take up Thoms's advice depends on who's telling the story. Schultz, quoting Thoms, indicated that Iacocca had already read about the Aerocar and had taken an interest in it. Richard Place, then a product planner for Ford and a member of the team that looked into the Aerocar for the company, intimated that Iacocca agreed out of politeness or even to get on Thoms's good side. The NHTSA, after all, had only a few years before being given regulatory authority over vehicle safety and emissions, Place pointed out.
Whatever the ultimate reason, in 1970 Iacocca had Don Petersen, then Ford's vice president of planning and research (and later president, chairman, and CEO of Ford), look into the Aerocar. Petersen took along Place, a licensed pilot, and together they met with Thoms and Taylor before Petersen then commissioned a market study that, according to Schultz, showed potential sales of 25,000 flying cars a year, selling for $20,000 apiece.
A decade later, Place said that, after driving and flying the Aerocar, he found it technically feasible. Yet a few factors derailed Ford's interest in the Aerocar. Place said that any flying car sounded "silly, frivolous," a sentiment echoed in his account of Petersen's almost immediate decision not to recommend to somebody as dead serious as Henry Ford II that the company pursue the flying car concept. He also noted that the country's air traffic control system at the time just wasn't equipped to handle the volume of flying cars that Ford's market study indicated.
Ironically, Ford's biggest reason for nixing the flying car idea was the very thing that got company executives thinking about it in the first place. Ford already had its hands full meeting the NHTSA's automotive safety and emissions standards, and any such flying car would have also had to conform to those standards, which at the time meant added weight and complexity that already bogged down ground-based cars.
"I reported back that it was a very interesting idea," Petersen told Schultz. "The vehicle could indeed be driven on the roads and it could be flown, so it really was an Aerocar. It seemed some special thrust might be able to find a niche for such a product, but I didn't see any reason of sufficient magnitude for Ford to show any more interest or pursue it."
Taylor himself said that Ford losing interest in the Aerocar marked the end of the Aerocar project and its future.
Place, who kept in touch with Taylor afterward, told Schultz he always regretted not being able to get Ford interested in the Aerocar. "I believe in its feasibility and its potential to make an incremental contribution to transportation," he said.
Forgotten Fiberglass – The Big Bang of Fiberglass: Petersen Motorama, November 1951
Welcome to our first installment of Forgotten Fiberglass on Hemmings.com. Over the years, you may have seen the numerous mentions Hemmings has made to Forgotten Fiberglass and my efforts to document (and sometimes retrieve) lesser-known fiberglass-bodied cars of the 1950s, and now we're honored to be able to bring these stories directly to the Hemmings community via regular guest posts.
Forgotten Fiberglass is not just a place to learn about history. Our team is far more than a few hard-working car guys on the fiberglass fringe. It's a living, breathing place where our group shares what we learn and discusses the significance of what we find. In the theme of building your own sports car, we are rebuilding the history and heritage of these cars with research, collaboration, and cooperation. Reassembling this history, fiberglass bit by fiberglass bit.
You see, the story about building your own fiberglass sports car is unique to each and every one built. Most of the conventional car stories we read start when a payment was made and an excited individual drives away from the deal, car in hand (or under foot, rather). True, the back story of how a specific manufacturer model came to be can be a fascinating story about a business, but it's not about the owner/builder dreaming, designing, building, and then driving his own car.
The stories on fiberglass cars and building them in the Fifties is much, much more. All of these companies started in small garages, and most of them stayed there. That seems fitting because most of the cars finished and built back in the day weren't built using MIG welders on epoxy floors by men in uniforms with pneumatic tools – they were built by young men who wanted to realize the dream of building and driving their own sports car. Often with a bag of tools, in an unlit garage and under inhospitable conditions. For those cars that were finished and finished right, the ultimate reality of this dream could be breathtaking.
For these reasons, we at Forgotten Fiberglass believe that the stories of the fiberglass companies, the men who founded them, and the cars built by young men across the country is the best American car story never told.
I picked today's topic of the bursting forth of fiberglass sports cars to the American public in 1951 as appropriate for our first guest post here. What better way that to capture the birth of two things in one fell swoop.
Whenever we hear the word "Motorama" we think of the GM Motorama. But when you add the word "fiberglass," I think of the Petersen Motorama, from the same Petersen Publishing that brought us Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and many other car magazines.
GM Motoramas were fantastic. Futuristic cars and all the current models all under one roof. But Petersen Motoramas were a much more interesting breed of animal. Hot rods, race cars, boats, planes, custom cars, sport customs. Everything you could imagine, and if you built something good enough, you could apply for and display your fantastic creation right alongside other famous cars in the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles – the same place the GM Motorama was often held when it traveled to the West Coast. The Petersen Motorama phenomenon was the flip side to the GM Motorama – the only difference was the Petersen Motorama allowed the American public on both sides of the show experience.
And – starting in 1951 – the world's first fiberglass cars debuted at the Petersen Motorama. These were cars that you could build yourself, so the public learned that they could build their own fiberglass-bodied sports car for the very first time. They learned this from Eric Irwin, who had finished his Lancer fiberglass sports car just a few months earlier. They learned this from Bill Tritt, who finished his Boxer (later called the GlassparG2) at the same time. In fact, it's no surprise that Irwin and Tritt both finished their fiberglass cars in the summer of 1951 and displayed their cars at the Petersen Motorama: They were next-door neighbors on Industrial Way in Costa Mesa, California. Bill Tritt had his fiberglass boat shop going there, and Eric Irwin had set up his shop to build a 50-foot motorboat. Ultimately, they helped each other build their fiberglass cars.
But they weren't alone. John Willis and Ralph Roberts debuted their Wasp and Skorpion fiberglass sports cars – both diminutive in nature, but also small, lightweight, fun, and sporty to drive – at the Petersen Motorama, as did Molt Taylor with his Aerocar, which had a skin of fiberglass.
If only we could turn back time.
In the early 1950s, fiberglass was where it was at, and all sorts of people, organizations, and associations gravitated toward this new wonder material and learned how it could bring various dreams to life – especially the dreams of young, hard-working, talented men, who wanted to build the sports cars that American auto manufacturers didn't offer.
And that's the mission of Forgotten Fiberglass. To recapture the history and share the enthusiasm of a time long lost – and lost to the American car culture public – until now.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.
Trailerama at Clars auction this weekend
1935 Curtiss Aerocar 26′ Limousine
The press release on the Clars auction in Oakland this weekend wasn't terribly interesting: There was a '29 Cadillac, which was cool, with a Ford hot rod, Auburn replica and '75 Corvette, none of which flipped my wig. But when I started browsing through the catalog, there was more to find. First was a 1924 Locomobile, an AACA National First Prize winner – in 1966 – now thick with dust. And a "hill" of project cars and trucks. But the clear stars are the camper trailers.
There are 19 campers, plus one 1940s Freuhauf box trailer. The majority are Fifties Spartans, but there are a handful of pre-war models and some other post-war models, too. Three Pierce-Arrows, two Curtiss Aerocars and a Travel Coach are among the Thirties offerings, and there's a single 1940 GMC motorhome. The GMC was reportedly built by Howard Hughes to house Jane Russell on the set of The Outlaw.
I have no idea how challenging the restoration is on a vintage camper trailer. I'd think the mechanical work is probably easier than the interior, and then there's the plumbing and wiring to deal with. And how cool would it be to haul it with one of the half-dozen Thirties Diamond Ts among the project cars? I imagine that's what the owner had in mind. You can bid online at the Clars Auction Gallery.
Found: Front-drive Fifties mystery
So what does everybody make of this? We recently heard from George Albright of Ocala, Florida, who has sent us photos of some of the unusual cars he's bought in the past, and who just recently bought this, well, vehicle, with only the vaguest idea of what it is. Supposedly, it was built in about 1950 at the Grumman factory in Wichita, Kansas, and the four men in the photographs are identified as Cameron Bailey, Max Roy, Kelly Krentz, and A. A. Reddy. The steel birdcage-type construction is typical of aircraft construction and the wheels were taken from aircraft landing gear, but the engine is an air-cooled Onan two-cylinder, which drives the front wheels only through a pair of three-speed motorcycle transmissions, possibly Harley-Davidson or Indian.
While it certainly looks similar to some of the flying car concepts that abounded at that time – particularly Molt Taylor's Aerocar – it is definitely not an Aerocar, and we doubt that this was even designed as anything but a roadable car, given the lack of attachment points or bracing structures for wings. Rather, this appears to be a prototype or one-off design for an economical front-wheel-drive automobile.
However, none of the names of the men given have popped up in our research. Aside from aircraft, Grumman did indeed build vehicles meant for ground transportation – and still does today. They delved into bus manufacture in 1963 and today build the LLV postal vehicles you see delivering your mail. But so far, we haven't seen anything that references Grumman building a front-wheel-drive automobile at that time.
Whatever the history behind this thing, we're glad to see it's still around.
UPDATE (8.February 2011): According to Randy M., Grumman has never had a facility in Wichita, so there goes that part of the story. He also noted that this birdcage style of aircraft construction wasn't utilized by Grumman and that it quickly fell out of favor after World War II. Oh, and the wheels and tires were not taken from aircraft, rather from some sort of ground support vehicle. Thanks for the input, Randy!
A Curtiss in New York
Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss' story is long and complex, and the part about airplanes is more than we can go into here (see the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum if you want a primer on his contributions). He was also a manufacturer of motorcycles early in his career (and the Aerocar later on), holding a world land speed record on one of his V-8s (the first known American example) for several years, and a pal to Henry Ford.
Glenn Curtiss and Henry Ford, C. 1912
The story goes that Ford saw in Curtiss an equal, high praise indeed from curmudgeonly Ford. Ford saw Curtiss' long-running feud/lawsuit with the Wright Brothers over patent infringements as an echo of his battle with the Selden patent – he offered offered Curtiss invaluable advice and assistance, including his lawyer, William Benton Crisp.
Curtiss and Ford first met when both were piloting their own vehicles on track – they were both at Ormond Beach in 1903, where Ford, sidelined with a car damaged in shipping, saw Curtiss victorious in a one-mile motorcycle race. Later on, after Ford built an experimental aircraft using a model T engine, Curtiss suggested to Ford he'd be better off using Curtiss engines in the Model T. Ford refused, although all indications are that Curtiss was serious. The implications are mindboggling – Ford could have had a compact, production V-8 two years before Cadillac had one.
Whether it was that encounter or another, Ford was enough of a Curtiss fan that he eventually bought a Curtiss MF flying boat for his…good friend…Evangeline Dahlinger.
1917 Curtiss MF Seagull Hydroaeroplane


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The first day of school for the fourth grade students in Jade Van Gorder and Amy Bartholomew's class at Harry Hoag Elementary was anything but dull. In fact, it started off with a little eruption.
The teachers wanted to introduce their students to some basic scientific principles by dropping Menthos mints into a bottle of soda and analyzing the results. At the beginning of the lesson, Bartholomew asked the students to predict what would happen and then write down what they observed. She then led them outside for the experiment.
So, what happened? Students witnessed a small explosion of a small fountain of foam each time. During the last test, the foam jumped about eight feet high.
"That was great. I really liked how it erupted," said Tyrell Martin. "It made the lesson fun."
The lesson is an example of co-teaching in the district, where Van Gorder and Bartholomew share teaching responsibilities. Bartholomew said she wanted to find some fun ways for the students to get excited about science.
"Today, they learned about the scientific method and scientific inquiry. I think we're going to do a different experiment each month," she said. "During these lessons, the students ask questions so they can form a hypothesis."
Bartholomew said the lesson also ties into the Common Core Learning Standards because they are conducting research and reading to find information.
"When we do a project like this, they read to find out why the result happened and that makes it fun," she added.
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Before fame, many actors find work filming commercials. Unfortunately, we found a few of the funniest ones and put them together.
Before fame, many actors find work filming commercials. Unfortunately, we found a few of the funniest ones and put them together.
Rumor is that a few people in Hollywood have gotten boob jobs. Go figure. Well, here are the few we could round up.
A moment of silence, please, as we honor Pam Anderson and the celebrities who followed in her (stretched out) footsteps with this tribute to celebrity sex tapes.
These commercials are so sexist and so funny that they can only be seen as a product of their generation. Apologies for the video quality, they didn't have high-definition in the 1950s.
I love Japanese commercials. Even if you know what product is being advertised, they're too funny to make sense
It's crazy how expensive it is to run an ad during the Super Bowl. That's probably why so many classic commercials debut during the game.
Here are the 10 best local TV ads ever. There were so many, I think we may have to make more editions!
Watch the uncensored version of Paris Hilton's new music video Stars Are Blind. It's sexier than her sex tape and it won't get you in trouble if you watch it at work!
Siegfried and Roy dropped a huge truth bomb when they told a German newspaper, they were gay. Seriously? You lie…
When an actor dies before their movie is complete, directors are forced to make difficult choices. Here are our favorite films that were completed after the death of a principal actor.
The following stupid movie questions involve old people who are about to die (that means you, grandma!).
If you spent too much time listening to Michael Jackson, snorting cocaine, and watching TV during the 80s, then this game is for you.
We're sorry for ever making fun of you, Jessica. We mean it this time. You're not fat. You're not a lardass. You're amazing, and so are your boobs. They are what makes you amazing. Long live Jessica Simpson, long live her boobs.
Just kidding. We don't know if Lohan does meth, she probably doesn't. But we certainly know she has a meth face, which is the WORST kind of face if you're going to have any face at all.
Tamira Paszek has sadly been eliminated from the Australian Open although her cleavage remains a winner in all our hearts.
We're putting that one-legged freak from Dancing with The Stars, Heather Mills, in our infamous Torture Chamber! Will her plastic leg survive!?!
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It's weeks like this one that we sometimes wish Victor's Village was more than just editorial style (but then we look at how much work our fansite friends go through to get all that news and usually change our minds!)
We all know about the People's Choice Awards, the many new interviews, and big Catching Fire news, so we're going to focus on a piece of fandom joy that we feel got overlooked in all the hubbub.
FINNICK AND ANNIE! (Also affectionately known as FANNIE)
The sixth and final webisode in Mainstay Pro's Finnick and Annie series came out yesterday, and it was the best one yet.
It's no secret that we totally fangirl Mainstay Pro as well as screenwriter extraordinaire Shylah Addante of Down with the Capitol, so today we're going to party like we in District 4!
Let's address something first: HATERS GONNA HATE. The series was made by a small company with simple sets and amateur actors, most of whom were children and STILL out-acted most wannabe adult "actors". Of course it's not going to have the same effect as a multi-million major motion picture like… we don't know… THE HUNGER GAMES.
Not to mention some people are so caught up in their own fanon (fan canon- aka what readers make up in their own minds) that they refuse to accept any stories or backgrounds other brilliant minds create.
For all its quirks, there's one thing the Finnick and Annie series has in abundance: HEART. For that, we salute it!
There are plenty of cheap watered-down Hunger Games based ploys that ignore the meaning of story in the hopes either a little fame or a quick buck (though there are some excellent parodies out there! We're not saying they all suck!) Director John Lyde directs short films based on books he loves and The Hunger Games is no exception. With the help of Shylah, Mainstay Pro weaves together an untold story of two beloved characters, not because they want lots and lots of credit for it, but because they want to share an experience with other Hunger Games fans.
Don't believe us? Check out the final episode here:
If your heart didn't leap a little right at the end, YOU HAVE NO SOUL. Seriously. You are dead to all emotion. You should probably get that checked out.
From the first episode, in which we learned Finnick's dad looks like Poseidon himself, to that final episode, in which we gasped for joy and realized James Gaisford and Jack Quaid could be brothers– it's been a crazy fun ride.
Of course, the fabulous team behind all this is now moving into the land of original feature films. We couldn't be more pysched for them, but at the same time, we'll always remember how they made our little fandom hearts leap.
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South Park is already making fun of the Penn State scandal. And…. I might've laughed. TOO SOON?
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Uhhh…. you guys….. South Park already cranked out an episode making fun of the Penn State scandal. And even though I know it's wrong, and WAY too soon…….I might've laughed a little bit.
I feel guilty for laughing, though. Really, really guilty. Because it's not funny, it's really tragic. But anyway. Here's the clip so you can feel like a bad person when you laugh, too.
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We don't want no short people
I've been making my way through Ally McBeal on Netflix instant. I'm obsessed! One of the episodes, Ally's boss's uncle dies. The uncle apparently hated short people, and her boss wanted to talk about that at the funeral. Not celebrate it, but just talk about it. The pastor where the funeral was being held didn't want to allow that conversation to take place, because he thought it was encouraging that opinion. Ally had to take the pastor to court so that her boss could speak about how much his uncle hated short people at the funeral.
I UNDERSTAND THAT MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. But… the point is…. an entire church choir sang this song. I can't find a video of the scene from the show, but here's the original guy (Randy Newman) singing the song. Please listen to the lyrics, especially the part about their grubby little fingers, and tell me this is not the most ridiculous song you've ever heard in your life!


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I'm obsessed with…THIS PIRATE BEDROOM!
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I think we can all agree this is the COOLEST. BEDROOM. EVER. It was designed for a 6-year old who was able to choose between a castle, racecar, pirate ship, or space ship. I have to admit I probably would've gone for a castle design, but this is still insanely awesome.
The home features a huge hidden slide that runs the height of the home's staircase, and plops you into the coolest pirate bedroom ever featuring a pirate ship that floats above the bedroom, and a jail. Pretty sweet, right? Right.
In other news….. I'd like to throw a hail mary out there to the parents of this kid. WILL YOU ADOPT ME?
Here is the home's mudroom. If you open up on of the lockers it reveals a hidden room with a slide entrance! If you go down it…
TA DAAAA! You have landed in the coolest bedroom ever.
This is the view of walking into the bedroom. The jail is on the right, as well as the ladder up to the drawbridge.
The rope bridge is connected to the top of the jail cell, built to accommodate evil doers, thieves and little sisters.
I love the detailing on the bottom of the bathroom floor. Hidden treasure! The room on the right is the closet. Sure, you can access it by walking in… but there's also another way to access it!
Ta daaaaa!
Pretty cool, right? I think it's great these people allow their kid to have such a cool experience. I wish I was that rich.


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Stanford freshman Mariah Stackhouse set course records Sunday with a 9-under-par 26 on the front nine and a 10-under 61 to win the Peg Barnard Invitational title at Stanford Golf Course.
The Cardinal won the team title with a 569 (289-280), 14 strokes ahead of Cal (285-298). UC Davis was third at 589 (296-293).
Stanford coach Anne Walker said Stackhouse quickly drew a crowd.
"Mariah started eagle-birdie," Walker said. "Through six holes, Mariah was 5 under, and word started spreading. All of a sudden, everyone just started showing up."
Stackhouse tallied two eagles and five birdies on the front nine, with pars on the third and sixth holes. Stackhouse birdied the 12th hole but then had two consecutive bogeys. She finished strong, getting consecutive birdies on the 16th and 17th holes.
Sophomore Mariko Tumangan held the previous course record of 63.
"After I had the eagle on seven, I honestly felt like I was a spectator, and at that point I was just watching myself," Stackhouse said. "I've always known that there was going to be one day where I would have an epic front nine, and I've always wondered if I would be nervous. But it was just so much fun."
Stackhouse finished 10 strokes ahead of San Jose State's Regan De Guzman (72-68) and UC Davis' Demi Runas (69-71), who tied for second at 140. Cal's Morgan Thompson (69-72) was another stroke back.
San Jose State (591) was fifth among 13 teams, and Santa Clara (622) was 12th.
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John Simms took a no-hitter into the eighth inning to help No. 17 Rice beat No. 7 Stanford 3-0 in Houston. The Owls won two of the three games in the season-opening series. Austin Barr's leadoff double in the eighth was Stanford's only hit Sunday. The Cardinal plays its home opener against Cal at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Freshman Kelsey Stevens pitched a one-hitter as Stanford won 8-0 over visiting UC Davis in six innings.
Former San Jose striker Ryan Johnson scored a hat trick in his Portland home debut, but the Quakes countered with goals by Chris Wondolowski, Victor Bernardez and Mike Fucito for a 3-3 tie in an exhibition game.


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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, an election campaign poster for candidate Arshid Rashad al-Salahy hangs over a market in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Arabs, Turkomans and Kurds each see the March 7 vote in Iraq as a chance to prove one thing: Kirkuk is ours. The election will be the first of any kind in the city for five years. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)


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IMBA and Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Enter Unique Partnership
All IMBA members in Wisconsin will now automatically share a joint membership in the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin (BFW). The BFW will expand its statewide advocacy efforts by taking a more active role on mountain bike issues, including working with Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources and other state agencies. IMBA will support the BFW's work, and will help mountain bike organizations in Wisconsin expand their memberships and effectiveness.
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Linear choosability of graphs
Louis Esperet, Mickaël Montassier, André Raspaud
A proper vertex coloring of a non oriented graph G=(V,E) is linear if the graph induced by the vertices of two color classes is a forest of paths. A graph G is L-list colorable if for a given list assignment L={L(v): v∈V}, there exists a proper coloring c of G such that c(v)∈L(v) for all v∈V. If G is L-list colorable for every list assignment with |L(v)|≥k for all v∈V, then G is said k-choosable. A graph is said to be lineary k-choosable if the coloring obtained is linear. In this paper, we investigate the linear choosability of graphs for some families of graphs: graphs with small maximum degree, with given maximum average degree, planar graphs... Moreover, we prove that determining whether a bipartite subcubic planar graph is lineary 3-colorable is an NP-complete problem.
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Bloops: The Invisible Fastball
Posted by Steve Lombardi on October 20, 2011
Sports Illustrated has a great story on Kelly Swift.
Click here to read it.
22 Responses to "Bloops: The Invisible Fastball"
John Autin Says:
October 20th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Steve, both the links go to Swift's minor-league page.
Dr. Doom Says:
October 20th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
This is the link:
Dr. Doom Says:
October 20th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
According to the story, Swift's B-R page will need some updating, as he was born in 1920 and died in 1965 (44). Really good story, though. Makes me wish I had been alive to see baseball really permeate America like that.
Nash Bruce Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 3:44 am
Wow. What a great story.
Dvd Avins Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 5:08 am
Thank you for posting this, I don't think I've had read it otherwise.
Steve Lombardi Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 7:29 am
John - sorry. Doom - thanks!
I will fix that.
Steve Lombardi Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 7:32 am
Link fixed! 🙂
Dvd Avins - thank my dentist for having SI in his waiting room...or else I would have missed it too.
Ed Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 9:05 am
This was my favorite line from the story:
"In all he plowed three acres and pitched 18 innings that day."
Zachary Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 11:06 am
Too bad stats from those days are so incomplete. I'd love to see his K totals, for instance. But regardless, it's a wonderful story.
704_Brave Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 11:58 am
As an NC resident for all but 3 years of my life, this is a wonderful story of baseball in this state. There is so much of the history that I still don't know. Of course everyone knows about Willie Stargell playing in Asheville or Cal Ripken Jr playing little league in Asheville while Sr. managed the Tourists and later playing in Charlotte for the AA O's, but I'd never heard of Jack Swift. Sounds like a great guy who sacrificed for his family and got to do what he loved.
You know, listening to sports talk radio yesterday in Charlotte really troubled me. These 2 bozo hosts on the afternoon drive were bashing baseball and how the ratings have slipped and how baseball isn't popular and this, that and the other and I immediately honed in on the problem. The local media is so blinded by a football agenda that they can only complain about the methodical nature of baseball. It's just awful radio and I really don't see how it's possible to talk about Cam Newton for 4 hours during the World Series.
Baseball has great history in NC and I, for one, love the sport above all others. I love this site and I love the quirky nuances of the sport. I guess one main theme of the article is how TV has altered our lives. Give me a dugout seat, a hotdog, a beer and some sunshine and I'll be one of the happiest guys on earth.
Thanks for sharing a great article.
Paul E Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 12:12 pm
@10 704_Brave
" "I really don't see how it's possible to talk about Cam Newton for 4 hours during the World Series. " "
This, my good friend, is the provincial nature of the American citizen. LARGE cities' sports talk radio stations ruminate about the Sawx in Boston, the Fightins' in Philadelphia, and Jay Marriotti and Ozzie Guillen in Chicago to the absolute exclusion of everything that is truly relevant elsewhere. But, don't worry, baseball is not doomed - not as long as parents fear paralysis and concussions for their football-playing children
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October 21st, 2011 at 12:13 pm
"According to the story, Swift's B-R page will need some updating, as he was born in 1920 and died in 1965 (44)."
Based on the article, Swift also went by his middle name (Jack), not his first name (Kelly).
704_Brave Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 12:26 pm
@11 - Paul E -
I completely understand, but when not one segment (morning or afternoon) is devoted to any sport other than football, it really baffles me especially when hosts are seemingly dedicated to bashing baseball when the rare opportunity presents itself. I realize that the Panthers are the big game in town, but I got fed up with it.
I couldn't imagine letting my kids play football with 100% probability of injury. It's just nuts.
Oh well, thank God for MLB Network and B-R.com!
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October 21st, 2011 at 12:49 pm
@3 I don't think B-R has any way of tracking when every single person who's ever played minor league ball has died. Obviously they could do it in this particular case but generally speaking, it would be a near impossible task.
Rich Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 12:58 pm
@ 13
Do you think it's because they don't really have a local team?
Andrew Lucis Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Great stuff, man
704_Brave Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 2:15 pm
@15 Rich,
Yes, that has a lot to do with it, although this is Braves country (150+ TV games a year locally). When Sternberg made his comments about Rays attendance a couple weeks ago, the (unfounded) speculation of relocation to Charlotte was a topic on sports talk radio and needless to say it wasn't nearly as positive as I'd like it to be. It would be difficult for the Charlotte market to support 81 games, but odds would be better if there was some groundswell of support for it.
A lot of things start with grassroots movements these days. It happened with college football here and the Charlotte 49ers will kick off in 2013. The problem is that I'm just not sure the support is there for a third pro franchise here. The Panthers haven't historically drawn great crowds although the Hornets did for several years in the late 80s-mid 90s. Apathy describes the city's relationship with the Bobcats but 3 NASCAR races and the PGA golf tourney do very well each year and have huge crowds.
Furthermore, it's been a challenge to get the AAA Knights to relocate uptown from Fort Mill, SC and I'm not sure if that effort will culminate in a new stadium or not. A lot of the resistance comes from one local lawyer pushing for a MLB-ready stadium at some point. The rest of the resistance is as a result of how the Hornets left and the reluctance to use public funds on another stadium project (like the Bobcats did).
To me, Charlotte is a semi-viable choice for a MLB team but only if it is the Rays. There are a lot of northern transplants here and no doubt 18 games would sell out right off the bat (NYY and BOS). The tough draw would be the Tuesday night Royals game.
Verdict: not quite ready for MLB, not quite sure of the appetite. It's a tough one due to metro area size and due to lots of transplants, but I guess time will tell. Doesn't help to have local media outlets not so high on baseball, especially during pennant races/playoffs. (Also, disclaimer to Rays fans: I'm not advocating relocation beyond Tampa, just conjecturing.)
bluejaysstatsgeek Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Steve, thanks for for the bloop. It is a great story. Thank you also to the people at SI for making it available online.
Timothy P. Says:
October 21st, 2011 at 6:41 pm
This was a great story, I read the whole thing. Minor league baseball in North Carolina, it seems that every region of this great country loves baseball. The Caribbean, the far east, and the USA all love baseball.
scott-53 Says:
October 22nd, 2011 at 5:16 am
Great story. Collected baseball cards from 1964-1973. Had no idea that minor league baseball was so popular in the late 40's. (42 million attendance in 1949)
nesnhab Says:
October 22nd, 2011 at 10:34 am
@17 it's just as bad in the Washington DC metro area and we have an MLB team. Once football season starts, other than the Nationals, you cannot get a baseball game on the radio, ever, until the World Series.
Game of the Week, playoffs--it does not matter. It will always be a college football game, or some guy talking about football. If you're near a computer, you can always choose espnradio.com.
The weird thing is, if there was a sport that was more ill-suited for the radio than football, I can't imagine what it would be. Football is for TV. Didn't they figure this out in, say, 1960? Who is listening to these games?
Miranda Kisak Says:
October 27th, 2011 at 10:55 am
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My name is Jim Richardson, Jr., and I have lived in Rye for almost my entire life. I think Rye, for numerous reasons, is the perfect place to live. Unfortunately, recent events involving the golf club, the City Council and the mayor's office have, for the first time, forced me to question the ethical values of our city government. I am rarely politically active and usually not too concerned with local elections. That being said, it is quite obvious as a community we need to pay special attention to the upcoming elections. This is our opportunity to secure honest and accountable leadership.
Over the last three years, I have spent many hours with Joe Sack on the baseball diamond, at my home and at the Osborn School. It is clear to me that Joe is the solution to the problems that our city now faces. Rye needs a straightforward mayor with no hidden agendas.
Joe is a loyal father, a husband, a friend and a coach. All of these roles he has filled with great care, compassion, focus and integrity. I know that Joe will approach his job as mayor with the same level of excellence while exemplifying these same qualities. As a proud resident of Rye, I am disheartened by the recent transgressions by the current mayor and City Council members. We as a tight knit, proud community cannot allow history to repeat itself. I may not know the nuances of politics, but I know Joe Sack and admire his values as a father, a husband and as a man.
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FILE - This Nov. 8, 2011 file photo shows country singer Gary Allan at the 59th Annual BMI Country Awards in Nashville. Allan was supposed to perform in Atlantic City, N.J., the day after Hurricane Sandy hit. He never made it, but his thoughts remain with victims of the storm, so he's come up with a way to help. Fans can view the video for Allan's new single "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" on the country singer's web site beginning Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, on a special player. The player gives fans a chance to donate to the Red Cross. In return, donors get a free download of the song from Allan's untitled new album due out next year. Scores of artists have reached out to help raise money in the wake of the superstorm, which killed dozens and caused billions of dollars in damage in the northeastern U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)


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Although Slax 6.0.7 has no problem starting a KDE session from a command
prompt ("startx"), I'm getting an error I can't solve when I attempt to
startx (TWM or KDE).
This is a fresh install of 12.1 on an HP Pavilion dv4217c1 laptop.
Except for a few things like Xeyes and the obviously Asian fonts,
everything in slackware/x was installed.
(Wouldn't it be helpful if the .txt files contained something other than
blah: blah
blah: blah is part of X11.
blah: For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of
blah: X.Org implementation of the X Window System), see their website:
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The last few lines of Xorg.0.log are:
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard1)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard1" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse1)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Fatal server error:
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I googled aols looking for the above error message but came up blank, and
google.com/linux says lots of other distros exhibit this problem, but I
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Aug 24, 2016
Well this just made my day!
The girl above is named Tiffani Shipman. Tiffani posed in Playboy this past December as an "Employee of the Month." Tiffani works as a sales rep at South Central Sportchassis. South Central Sportchassis is a local business that sells and customizes, uhm, sporty semi-trucks.
I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure if that is weird or cool. Sure, it's cool that a local girl made Clark Matthews' favorite magazine, but it's weird that she works at place that makes pimped-out semis. Why can't our Playboy models have normal girl jobs like being a secretary, nurse or school teacher? Those are the questions in life that must be answered.
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Potash just let me know that there are two new blogs worth keeping an eye on.
First, the Kwani? literary magazine and organization now has its own blog (not to be confused with the Kwani? litfest blog). I was thrilled to see that Kwani? 4 has officially been published, and I hope copies find their way to the U.S. soon (the first three are available at various places, and are worth seeking out). I saw a preliminary edition of Kwani? 4 when I was in Kenya in December, and it's a big book rich with fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of all sorts.
Second, Binyavanga Wainaina has a blog. Actually, that should be Binyavanga Wainaina has a blog!!!, because it gives me great joy that one of the most astute writers I know is now going to be (at least occasionally) posting new material online. Binyavanga is presenting not only some of his own writing, but that of writers he knows and admires, including Jackie Lebo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
27 August 2007
Kwani? and Binyavanga Get Blogs
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Labels: Africa, blogs, Kenya, literary magazines, Online fiction, Writers
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You just like using exclamation points.ReplyDelete
And bold. It's true. I work so hard to seem in control, to seem at least not completely unhinged, and yet... Oh, I love three dots, too... And dashes -- dashes are the best -- dashes make me so happy I--ReplyDelete
But really, once you've met Binyavanga, it's hard to think of talking about him with anything other than bold and exclamation points!!! (Or, well, it is for me. I shouldn't make claims for you.)
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yes mate how are you are you doing C.H.E.K..p level 3 ? if you are i see you san digo in july
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35mm Presentation - I Am Love tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti), the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to reign over his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo's friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.
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David Limbaugh's new book, "Bankruptcy: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party" is a must read for liberals and conservatives alike. Democrats need to wake up and realize how bankrupt their party has become!
It is the party of secular-humanism, promoting moral relativism while mocking traditional moral values and attacking the Religious Right. It is the party of socialism, promoting class envy while spurning free-enterprize and capitalism. it is the party of the ACLU, promoting judicial activism while opposing the literal interpretation of the Constitution.
Democrats, your party is bankrupt! It is weak on defense and national security, The reason is simple; the Democratic party is run by the very same folks who staged anti-American rallys in the '60's and '70's.
It's so far left that conservatives are called "extreme right".
Thank God, I'm not a Democrat!
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Samson Agonistes
by John Milton
Analysis: Genre
Samson is a tragedy that is really into the fact that it's a tragedy. It even has a preface called "Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call'd Tragedy" just to make sure you're 100% clear about the fact that it's a tragedy.
However, just because it's all excited about being a tragedy doesn't mean its status as tragedy isn't complicated. In fact, we might just quote another tragic figure from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Queen Gertrude, and accuse Milton of "protesting too much." Maybe he's spent so much time talking about tragedy because he's actually a wee bit nervous about this whole tragedy thing.
Why? Well, tragedy originated in the pagan world of the Greeks, so: not Christian. And for Milton, who was devoutly religious, Christianity was a majorly big deal.
So, lots of people have read Samson as a work trying to combine the world of Christianity with the pagan world of tragedy. Does it succeed? Maybe. As we discuss in "Setting," Milton strictly follows tragic conventions to tell a Biblical story.
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Love It or Leave It: Brad Pitt's Hair is All Gone (He's Still Gorgeous)
9/11/2013 10:00 AM PDT, by Sarah Taylor
So it's Brad Pitt, and guys, all of his hair is gone. It's gone-gone. It actually looks like it's been buzzed for one of his new films, "Fury," and there's no messing around -- as you can see from the above photo, there isn't much fanfare about his once-celebrated hair, especially since he's concealing the main event under a baseball cap.
Unless Brad has a rockin' bowl cut a la "Home Improvement," then it's a pretty safe bet to make that he's buzzed all the way.
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RANVAL2010 A hedonic model for predicting the market value of New Mexico ranches, 1996 -2010
This webpage describes an Excel spreadsheet program that can be used to estimate the market value of a New Mexico ranch over the 1996 - 2010 period. The model estimates the value of New Mexico ranches based on the ranch characteristics you provide. Obviously the validity of the estimate will depend on the accuracy of the data provided. The regression or hedonic model was estimated from 659 ranch sales negotiated between January 1996 and December 2010.
You can download the 2010 Excel spreadsheet model from the menu above. Use this model to estimate values over the 1996 - 2010 period. Links to older versions of the model are also provided.
Fundung for this reserarch was provided by the Agricultutal Experiment Station and the U.S. Forest Service. We appreicate the cooperation of Farm Credit Services of New Mexico for providing ranch sales data.
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More about Iain DaleIain Dale is one of Britain's leading political commentators and bloggers. He is contributing editor for GQ Magazine, writes for the Daily Telegraph, and pens a fortnightly diary for the Eastern Daily Press. He is the publisher of the monthly magazine, TOTAL POLITICS and managing director of Biteback Publishing.
He is the creator and host of the theatre production A Night With Ann Widdecombe, which tours provincial theatres all round the country.
He is a former financial journalist with Lloyds List, and was a political lobbyist before setting up his own political bookselling and publishing company, Politico's, in the late 1990s.
Iain has written or edited more than twenty books including Margaret Thatcher: A Tribute in Words & Pictures, the Little Book of Boris, 500 of the Most Acerbic, Witty & Erudite Things Ever Said About Politics. His new book, Talking Politics, a collection of his print interviews with leading political figures, is being published later this year.
He is a fanatical West Ham fan and is the author of the West Ham Till I Die blog.
Iain is originally from Essex, but now lives in Tunbridge Wells with his partner and their Battersea rescue Jack Russell, Gio.
You can read Iain's political blog and his West Ham blog.
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With all the rhetoric seen lately on these pages over the legalization of pot it seems the larger question of prohibition itself has been ignored. In the entire history of human civilizations not one has ever been successful at preventing its population from pursuing or attaining whatever substance or vice it desires.
While the lessons of alcohol prohibition have been completely ignored by our government and its agencies, they have been well studied and implemented by the infamous cartels of Mexico and Colombia. Their control of government officials and mass killings have exceeded Al Capone�s wildest dreams.
The United States incarcerates a larger percentage of its population then any other country in the world, most of them young people for drug-related offenses. Jail overcrowding has gotten so bad that there are now commercial �for-profit� jails springing up everywhere.�One in California actually lobbied against pot decriminalization, fearing a loss in revenue.
While the jury is still out on Colorado�s grand experiment, its first months tax revenues of $2 million should surely make Rhode Island�s perpetually money hungry legislators sit up and take notice.
But, no matter the issue � be it drugs, sex, gambling or some other vice � we do know that prohibition never works. Isn�t it about time someone attempted to address these issues in a logical and informative manner rather than simply throwing the heavy club of incarceration at offenders?
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Jumbo Jugglers – what more is there to say? They're jumbos and they juggle stuff. The truly impressive part comes from seeing them juggle, especially when they're juggling something as entrancing and dangerous as fire. The clip below shows one member of the Jumbo Jugglers doing just that:
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Well I finally got around to sprucing up that old Ikea Lack table. Inspired by an idea from Jenny over at Little Green Notebook, I transformed my $10 table that was destined for the dumpster into one of my new favorite pieces of furniture. With less than $45 and a little elbow grease, I now have a beautiful little end table.
- Lack Side Table
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- Wood glue
- Wood filler
- Sand paper
- 8 wood corbels, $1.99 each
- Spray Paint, $5.89
- Martha Stewart Living Precious Metals Paint, $6.99
- Nailhead trim, $15.99 (Joann Fabric and Craft Stores)
I started out by sanding down the "wood". The surface is actually a very thin veneer so it doesn't take much but does need to be thoroughly sanded. After whipping off all the excess dust, I flipped the table over and glued the corbels to the inside of each leg. Be sure to let them dry COMPLETELY before the next step.
After the corbels have dried, use wood filler to fill the tiny cracks between the table legs and corbels to make the surface flush. When the filler dries, lightly sand it until it's smooth. After removing the dust, apply a thick coat of primer and follow it up with several coats of high gloss white spray paint. Spray painting furniture is tricky but there are lots of videos out there with helpful tips. The best tip I can give is to be patient-don't try to get it all done in one coat. Spraying too close or too heavy will leave ugly drips or pools of paint on the surface.
To draw attention to the edge detail, I painted the inside surface of the corbel with a pretty bronze metallic paint. The edges of the corbels are a little rough and could have used a light sanding, but I hardly notice it on the finished product.
When I first started out, this was all I had intended on doing to the table but when I put in my living room, it seemed, well…lackluster. After tossing around a few ideas, I decided to try out a nailhead design. I purchased some nailhead trim from Joann's and hammered it in place to create a border around the table top.
Adding the trim really helped finish the piece and brought out the bronze paint on the corbels. There you have it- a beautifully repurposed table for $45!


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The victim of a fatal car crash Tuesday on Interstate 59 has been identified as 47-year-old John Verdin of Wiggins.
Mississippi Highway Patrol Cpl. Jason Gazzo told The Sun Herald that Verdin was identified through dental records.
The crashed happened shortly after 1 p.m. near the 29-mile marker of I-59 when Verdin lost control of his 2006 Saturn Ion.
Gazzo said initial investigation indicated Verdin was in the left lane when the car ran into the median then over-corrected and ran off the right side of the road.
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In political, socio-economic, scientific, and technological contexts and, more generally, in all workplace domains, writers strive to formalize, shape, and provide a clear, succinct style for their discourses. Workplace discourse often originates in contexts that are somewhat informal and that reflect various tensions, oppositions, and divergent interests. CATTW/ACPRTS welcomes proposals that discuss these matters and other topics relevant to the practice and teaching of technical, professional, and scientific writing. Proposals should foreground the research methods and research context on which the paper is based, and should include the relevant references to the literature. We also welcome proposals on similar topics for round-tables, workshops, and informal sessions. While such proposals need not necessarily reflect formal research, they should relate to current conversations in the field and should encourage the exchange of ideas and experiences among participants.
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Ten Things You Can Do after You're Comfortable with Outlook 2013
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar.
Office 2013 has an arrangement of controls that eliminates menus in favor of big Ribbons, tabs, and buttons. With an old-fashioned menu system, you know that everything you want to do is on a menu somewhere. In the new arrangement . . . who knows?
There's hope, however. After you find the tool you need, you can right-click the tool and choose Add to Quick Access Toolbar. That adds a tiny icon to that thin strip of icons that sits just above the Ribbon (or below the Ribbon, if you move it there).
If you've ever bookmarked a website, you know how this works. If you right-click the Quick Access toolbar and choose Show the Quick Access Toolbar below the Ribbon, that's exactly what happens.
Each Outlook form also features its own Quick Access toolbar as well. That's useful for speeding up tasks that you perform frequently. If you like to print individual e-mail messages from time to time, you can add the Quick Print command when you're reading or composing a message. That way, the Print command is a couple of clicks closer.


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