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...remote corner of the Tucson center. Many pilots and other lovers of aircraft find this "drop area" distinctly unsettling and tend to avoid it. Everything salvageable from the planes stored here has been cut, pried or wrenched off. Only hollow shells are left. A couple of flying boxcars sprawled wheelless on the ground look like great, ungainly fish, beached and gaffed. The last half-dozen B-47 bombers, or what is left of them, dip crazily, their wing tips on the ground, their engines, control panels and seats gone. Dozens of skeletal Air Force F-84Fs of Korean War vintage...
This gruesome image has been framed in the consciousness of a great many flabby, middle-aged Americans. And how have they reacted? They are skipping rope in a gym class, jogging around the reservoir, pedaling a pinioned and wheelless bicycle, flailing arms before the bedroom mirror, doing push-ups on the office floor-in a tenth-hour campaign to redeem years of reprehensible physical neglect...
...Chartres have been scratching their heads and stroking their whiskers at the sight of a 170-m.p.h. vehicle that flies without wings astride a single concrete rail. The streamlined craft that keeps the grands-pères guessing is a half-scale experimental model of France's wheelless, one-car "aerotrain." After a year of tests, the French government just gave the go-ahead for construction of a full-sized model that will whisk 84 passengers down a 16-mile test run at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h...
...them from the U.S., and hopes to be turning out 1,500 a month by September. Price: $1,425. > For those who would rather hover than sink: a flying machine that never gets more than 9 in. off the ground. The Dobson Air Dart is a 95-lb. wheelless bug, 8 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, with a kayak-style cockpit and a zo-h.p. engine that drives a fan in the bug's nose. The fan supports the vehicle on a column of air by the same principle as the larger air-supported vehicles under development...
After 2½ months and 10,500 miles, we ended our wheelless camping trip, which led us into 17 states and Canada...