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Study and research on The Cycle-Glider

What year for the magazine issue? January, 1932; page 131 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-cycle-glider/
What patent number is shown in the text? US 1777841 Is that correct? . That patent number refers to Two-stroke-cycle internal-combustion engine equipped with scavenging pump annex
Magazine: Everyday Science and Mechanics [[ EVERYDAY MECHANICS was a name of a periodical that was then changed to Everyday Science and Mechanics. ]]
What else?


Sorry for the size of image.

(Moderator Edit: Find full size image here: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/ScienceAndMechanics/1-1932/cycle_glider.jpg)

Artist: Frank R. Paul

Now that gets my vote for "Safe Splat" because the safest splat ... is no splat at all!!!!

By the way, here's a smaller version. Please let me know if you'd like me to replace yours and I'll be happy to do it.


Moderator Edit:

Per Joe's PM, his larger image was replaced with a smaller version (originally in this post) and a link to the full sized image was added:

Joe Faust wrote:Thanks, BobK:
Yes, replace that huge image of the The Cycle-Glider to your size.
Thanks.
JoeF

Some of the competitors who landed at the Zack's Ranch goal during the 1981 Owens Valley XC Classic will remember meeting famous science fiction writer Ray Bradbury there. Don Partridge used to invite him out to see the hang gliders land and Ray came out more than once. He loved to see the hang gliders race. He said it was like science fiction. Having grown up on Ray Bradbury's stories of Venus and Mars, it was fantastic to meet him and find him enthralled by our sport.


Ray Bradbury

Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction
Hugo Gernsback's predictions give us a look at the most radical of technological utopianism from the 1920s
By Matt Novak smithsonian.com October 4, 2012
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/p ... 64/?no-ist

Hugo “Awards” Gernsback was many different things to different people. To his fans, he was a visionary who started some of the most influential (not to mention the first) science fiction magazines of the early 20th century. Ray Bradbury was quoted as saying, “Gernsback made us fall in love with the future.”

Hugo Grensback

Within twenty years there will be far more airplanes in the air than we have cars on the ground now. There will be a great exodus from the city to the country, not a movement back to the farm, but, most likely, a movement back to the home. Inaccessible and practically valueless plots in the most out of the way places will bring high prices for house building sites, because hills and mountain tops will be more accessible than the valleys.

I do not see the airplane, as it is today, neither do I see the helicopter as the final solution for aircraft. As long as an airplane requires a landing field, or at least, a space for a runway of 100 yards, or more, to either alight or take off, airplanes will not come into universal use. The helicopter idea, to my mind, is not sound. The chances are that we shall have an airplane that will be able to land on rooftops, or even in streets, if necessary. I believe that airplanes will be articulated in such a way that the entire plane can be spun around practically within its own length, and kept on circling in this small space as long as necessary. This would be the equivalent of “standing still,” for an automobile. If a landing were to be made, the airplane could then spiral down by gradually losing altitude. It could rise the same way, always spiralling in a small circle, which need not exceed 50 feet in diameter, and perhaps even a great deal less for smaller machines.

I firmly believe that within twenty years air-liners of a special construction will make the trip from New York to Paris within ten to twelve hours at a maximum, flying through the upper strata of our atmosphere. The flying would be done at tremendously high altitudes, for the simple reason that here there is less air resistance, with a consequent increase in speed and safety. The entire hull for passengers and crew would be practically airtight, as the space would have to be supplied with air at proper pressure, and, due to the tremendous cold at high altitudes, the inside would have to be heated artifically as well, either from the exhaust of the engines, or electrically.

Gernsback combined his fiction and science into Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine, serving as the editor in the 1930s. - Wikipedia


November 1931

Sorry for the size of image.

Big is better. Use ctrl- to shrink and ctrl+ to enlarge.

Nice, Rick.
Thanks for the sizing note. Good.
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TURNS out the article made a typo in the patent number . The 8 should be a 9 where ... 841 should be "...941.
https://www.google.com/patents/US1777941 by Joseph Szakacs
Unicycle Glider
PDF for the patent:
https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewe ... 777941.pdf
Filed: January 12, 1929

RickMasters wrote:Big is better. Use ctrl- to shrink and ctrl+ to enlarge.

The biggest problem with big images on the forum is the time it takes to load them on slower connections. So it's best to use a smaller image with a link to the bigger one for anyone who wants more detail. But the choice is up to each person making the post.

Also, note that you can include images directly from other sites using the "IMG" tag as Joe did originally, or you can upload them as an attachment and then insert them into your text using and "ATTACHMENT" tag. If you use an "IMG" tag to reference an image from another site, beware that it might disappear at some time in the future leaving a hole in your post. Joe's original post used an "IMG" tag to reference the image from an external site so (with his permission) I replaced it with the smaller one and a link to the larger one. That solution loads the page faster, preserves the content even if the external image disappears, and still give access to the larger image via the link as long as it's available.

But again, the choice is up to each person making a post. My role as moderator (generally speaking) is to make suggestions and then ... do what I'm told.

The Cycle Glider is quite fanciful. Can you imagine what the huge ring gear must have weighed?

RickMasters wrote:The Cycle Glider is quite fanciful. Can you imagine what the huge ring gear must have weighed?

It was made out of wishfulthinkium ... which we all know is very light!!