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Old 10-15-2017, 12:13 AM   #319 (permalink)
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I meant I don't remember a run with that modification.

Buckminster Fuller had a feature that didn't make it to his Dymaxion prototypes. He called it an 'air keel'.



You could view it as sponsons or spats for the wheels and a 'cleft chin' converging duct in the soft-rounded nose to provide a central jet of energized air. The nose looks more bluff, too; more like Baby than the prototypes.
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