From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11807 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, July 20 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11807 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 7-day pain fix: THIS. IS. INSANE. ["EAT THIS" <7days@plushsurvey.rest>] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:15:56 +0200 From: "EAT THIS" <7days@plushsurvey.rest> Subject: 7-day pain fix: THIS. IS. INSANE. 7-day pain fix: THIS. IS. INSANE. http://plushsurvey.rest/VHFsb4hX-0aopulYAkau5LkK-4Q6FObcn5JelFuw0iC41ky4wA http://plushsurvey.rest/MpiyP62Cc3T_ibwmT1uQoCZ6S1hqNSEnEQsi5vt7qLT8Pdry In 1929, Andrew Kucher of Ford began experimenting with the Levapad concept, metal disks with pressurized air blown through a hole in the center. Levapads do not offer stability on their own. Several must be used together to support a load above them. Lacking a skirt, the pads had to remain very close to the running surface. He initially imagined these being used in place of casters and wheels in factories and warehouses, where the concrete floors offered the smoothness required for operation. By the 1950s, Ford showed a number of toy models of cars using the system, but mainly proposed its use as a replacement for wheels on trains, with the Levapads running close to the surface of existing rails. Charles Fletcher's Glidemobile in the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey In 1931, Finnish aero engineer Toivo J. Kaario began designing a developed version of a vessel using an air cushion and built a prototype PintaliitC$jC$ ('Surface Glider'), in 1937. His design included the modern features of a lift engine blowing air into a flexible envelope for lift. However, he never received funding to build his design.[citation needed] Kaario's efforts were followed closely in the Soviet Union by Vladimir Levkov, who returned to the solid-sided design of the Versuchsgleitboot. Levkov designed and built a number of similar craft during the 1930s, and his L-5 fast-attack boat reached 70 knots (130 km/h) in testing. However, the start of World War II put an end to his development work. During World War II, an American engineer, Charles Fletcher, invented a walled air cushion vehicle, the Glidemobile. Because the project was classified by the U.S. government, Fletcher could not file a patent. In April 1958, Ford engineers demonstrated the Glide-air, a one-metre (three-foot) model of a wheel-less vehicle that speeds on a thin film of air only 76.2 ?m (3?1000 of an inch) above its table top roadbed. An article in Modern Mechanix quoted Andrew A. Kucher, Ford's vice president in charge of Engineering and Research noting "We look upon Glide-air as a new form of high-speed land transportation, probably in the field of rail surface travel, for fast trips of distances of up to about 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi)". In 1959, Ford displayed a hovercraft concept car, the Ford Levacar Mach I. In August 1961, Popular Science reported on the Aeromobile 35B, an air-cushion vehicle (ACV) that was invented by William Bertelsen and was envisioned to revolutionise the transportation system, with personal hovering self-driving cars that could speed up to ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11807 ***********************************************