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...Newton, Conn. With the encouragement of his wealthy father, who owned Mack Trucks, the young Fulton took his 18-month trip home after completing school in Vienna. He later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook, designed to extract spies from enemy territory, was featured in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 24, 2004 | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...Airphibian," a combination plane and car that will do 50 m.p.h. on the ground and no m.p.h. in the air. All the owner has to do is drive to the airport, fit on the car's wings, tail section and a propeller, and take off. Planned price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Gold-Plated Hot Rods | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...banks of the Hudson one day in 1807, crowds gathered to watch Robert Fulton, an artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it "Fulton's Folly." Last week in Danbury, Conn, the scene was repeated with variations. The occasion: the first flight of the "Airphibian," a 150-h.p. light plane which can be bisected into an aluminum-bodied automobile.* The builder & demonstrator: Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an architect-turned-engineer and a descendant (he doesn't know the exact relation) of steamboat-builder Fulton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Fulton's Folly, New Version | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...airphibian-builder Fulton put the blame on the kind of planes being made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Fulton's Folly, New Version | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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