Topic: Piasecki Skycar, 1959

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this car?

[grobmotorix]

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[wingroad]

Nuclear powered like the Ford Nucleon ?

[grobmotorix]

No - more conventional...

[thewarlord]

a drawing for 1957 (I think) Volante or 'Tri-Athodyne' by Ford's designer Jim Powers for the Stylerama project?

[grobmotorix]

There´s no Ford connection to my best knowledge.

But it´s american.

[grobmotorix]

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[Wendax]

From 1959, to be built for the US Army:

[Wendax]

I guess it was an artist's interpretation of what emerged into the Chrysler VZ-6:

[grobmotorix]

You´ve obviously found it - 1959 is also correct.

But it has a specific name.

This consists of the first part:

   - the (known) constructor´s name.

and the second part:

   - the model name

Still there´s not enough facts to lock it for you...

[Wendax]

Any connections to Curtiss-Wright?

[grobmotorix]

No, but I must help here, because you´ve almost made it.

I´ll lock it for you, because you´ve found the connection showing those two pics in your posts.

There´s another (quite well) known vehicle that´s been constructed with the same design.

When you´ll find this, I think you´ll find the first name in a minute...

[Wendax]

The three companies mentioned in my snippet all took part in the army's Flying Jeep competition. They were Chrysler with its VZ-6 (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=1322.0) shown above, Curtiss-Wright with their VZ-7 of a different design and the Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep following the same concept as Chrysler. The well known flying car you refer to is probably the Curtiss-Wright Air Car (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3713.0)

[grobmotorix]

No - take the third one, you´ve mentioned...

[Wendax]

That would make it an Piasecki Airgeep or Air Jeep.

[grobmotorix]

It makes it a Piasecki XXX...

It is not the Airgeep, but a proposal for the "normal" consumer, not for the military.

[Wendax]

Piasecki Skycar?

[grobmotorix]

Hallelujah!