James wrote:



This ought to be interesting.

In the 1950s and'60s, Leland Bryan produced a series of highway-certified
folding-wing Roadables that used their pusher propellers for both air and
road power. Bryan died in the crash of his Roadable III in 1974. And in
1973, Henry Smolinski, mimicking the ConVaii-Car rental unit concept,
fastened the wings, tail, and aft engine of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford
Pinto. The wing struts collapsed on its first test flight, killing Smolinski
and the pilot.



http://www.fordpinto.com/mitzar1.htm

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraf.../info/info.htm - An
AEROCAR link, at least this one flew.


James Taylor
www.AICompany.com



That was a sad accident, I was at Oshkosh in '74 when that happened. I got to
look it over the day before the accident. I believe if that accident had not
happened Roadable Aircars would be much more common today.

Jerry