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Old February 5th 04, 06:11 AM
Pat Flannery
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Peter Stickney wrote:

I'm surprised that you didn't go for the Rotating-Bag Dirigible,
myself.


Way too normal...you could actually tell that one was designed to fly by
looking at it...that wasn't the case with the photos of the French one:
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/gyroptereBW2.jpg
http://modelbox.free.fr/photoscopes/...R_lac_face.JPG ...I
notice the poor fool...er... "pilot" seems to be thinking things over
prior to "takeoff"...with good reason:
http://modelbox.free.fr/photoscopes/...PR_takeoff.JPG ... I'll
bet the spectators were laughing about this for years...maybe even
decades...later.


And I wouldn't mind a Bel Geddes #4, as long as Barbara Bel Geddes was
in the Hot Tub. (Deck 6, aisle 4, behind the Lobster Pound and just
before the brewery.)


Nice, but no Kim Novak... (Vertigo)


Pat