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Old 10-09-2011, 12:56 PM   #1
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October 9, 2011 Flying Pinto


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In the early 1970's, Advanced Vehicle Engineers (AVE) of Oxnard, California, built a flying car called a Mizar. It was basically a Cessna Skymaster grafted to a Pinto.

In 1973, the engineers, Henry Smolinski and Hal Blake, took it for a test flight. The wings and car "ungrafted." What was seen was a Pinto flying through the air sans wings.

The Pinto crashed, ending the careers of the two engineers, as well as that of the flying car.



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Old 10-09-2011, 12:59 PM   #2
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They do tend to go up in flames, don't they, those Pintos.

There's one in the neighborhood painted blue with red, orange and yellow flames. Coming forward from the rear bumper.

Sad story though.
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Old 10-09-2011, 01:03 PM   #3
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I drove a robin's-egg blue pinto from '79-'82.

RIP, old girl. RIP.
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Old 10-09-2011, 01:24 PM   #4
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Right before the crash, did the passenger turn to the driver and say "I've always loved you"?
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Old 10-09-2011, 01:28 PM   #5
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According to wikipedia:
"Even though the Pinto was a light car, the total aircraft was already slightly over gross weight without passengers or fuel. One observer reported that the wing struts were attached to the car with sheet-metal screws and that "...everything was really bad." However, in addition to poor design and loose parts, the National Transportation Safety Board reported that bad welds were partly responsible for the crash, with the right wing strut attachment failing at a body panel of the Pinto."
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Old 10-09-2011, 01:58 PM   #6
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These gentlemen were not in any sense of the word "engineers". Unless they drove trains for a living.
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Old 10-09-2011, 02:07 PM   #7
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Right before the crash, did the passenger turn to the driver and say "I've always loved you"?
I got your reference. As Axel Rose would say, "Good way to use your allusion."
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Old 10-09-2011, 02:35 PM   #8
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These gentlemen were not in any sense of the word "engineers". Unless they drove trains for a living.
So, it's only engineering if it works?
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:06 PM   #9
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They should have used SuperGlue. As far as I know, that fellow is still hanging from the girder by his hardhat.

BigV, engineering is nowhere near as seat of the pants as it used to be. It's all computer model this and simulator that ... nobody wants to commit money on untested shit these days.

Now, of course, they probably weren't aeronautical engineers, just a couple of good ol' boys with a Pinto who bumbled onto half of a Cessna one day down the junkyard.

They were probably friends with the JATO unit guy.
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:08 PM   #10
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They were probably friends with the JATO unit guy.
Then it would have been rocket science.
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:11 PM   #11
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Did you just confuse classic man and Big V, or were you prefacing your statement with 'Classic'?
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:33 PM   #12
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:40 PM   #13
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Its kinda like he put the post in the wrong thread or something.
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Old 10-09-2011, 11:13 PM   #14
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???????????? Who, Jim?
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Old 10-10-2011, 01:49 AM   #15
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Whau?

That car would have worked if McGyver had done it.

Please pretend I posted the video of the rich English eccentric who hurls old cars with a giant Trebuchet. That's a flying car, kind of.
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