When I was a little girl, we had a guest speaker in my 7th grade class, she was an aviator traveling around the world. It was of-course not Amelia Earhart, considering I am 25. However this young women with such dedication changed my young mind forever, and started a very healthy obsession with all things related to aviation, and with that came the amazing Amelia Earhart.
And so, when I found myself doodling this image from a magazine I thought it appropriate to add to the the blog portfolio.
In the late 1950's my Grandfather and a small team built this research and expirimental aircraft, model VZ 7AP, commissioned by the government to Curtiss Wright Corp (santa Barbara division). This plane was an over-all military aerial jeep concept, it was highly maneuverable, easily controlled about all 3 axes without use of stability augmenting equipment, it could hover in or out of ground effect, translate in any direction, and fly at speeds comparable to ground vehicles. Cool right......Well I grew up staring at pictures of this hover craft in my Mom's office, and although the military never put it to use, it was pretty amazing to me.
