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Re:Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar by legerdemain on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:29AM (#24196117)
Inspiration for the Star Wars landspeeders? I find it pretty amazing how much of the visual language of science fiction is a digested and recombined medley of the popular science and industrial research of its day.
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Re:Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar by johnwalkr on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:23AM (#24196385)
Actually, this[1] is the original concept. Pretty close! I coincidentally saw it in a documentary yesterday. They changed the design so they could easily make the prop based on an existing small car.

[1] https://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11...

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