("cavedweller" wrote)
Aircraft use is a lot more like pulling a trailer uphill at highway
speed.
.... in first gear if a PSRU is used.
(Wikipedia)
"Airstream trailers are well recognized for their distinctive rounded
aluminum bodies, which originated in the 1930s from designs largely created
by Hawley Bowlus . Bowlus was the designer of Charles Lindbergh's aircraft,
the Spirit of St. Louis."
"Rec.Homebuilt" g
http://www.airstream.net/images/torpedo.jpg
"Dr. H.W. Holman and wife Thelma with the oldest existing Airstream. This
'torpedo trailer' was built from plans supplied by the Airstream company in
1935."
http://www.airstream.net/as_photos/photos.html
Photos of vintage Airstreams
Montblack