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Old 06-05-2017, 09:41 PM   #65 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
I for one would settle for an amphibian/submarine car.

B_Bob/elhigh — The lead picture in Permalink #51 is based on a spherical octahedron that has been prolated different amounts in different directions. IOW it's an asymmetrical zepplin. Consequently it can be scaled from belly tanker to motorhome size of variable fineness ratio. And it lends itself to formless construction.

With a lifting body and air-breathing plasma jets, it would fly.
Submarines are wonderful if you get caught out in a storm. Many boats could be saved if designed to sink 90% and stop.
I think that any simple, scanned shape has those same virtues.
It looks like a lifting body already, and as the old aircraft pioneers used to say, a tea tray will fly if you put enough horsepower into it.
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