Aeromarine sounds like a color and that’s a pretty weak name for something that looks like it should be flown by G.I. Joe. I suppose this is reasonable considering that the inventor’s name is Skeets, but I think we can do better.
Maybe something more muscular, like “Car-BO-Plane” (over-hyphenation and making one word ALL CAPS was very popular in these mags). Or maybe something personal like “The Skeeter” or “Skeetsmobile”.
What do you think?
The Car-Boat That Flies
Skeets Coleman’s three-way gadabout will be a performing fool and as easy to pilot as a ’56 car.
THE GREAT advances in aircraft design of the past 15 years have had little effect on the looks or performance of the small private planes now being built; you could have landed any of them at a small airport in the mid-30′s without scaring anybody. But with Skeets Coleman’s Aeromarine design the field of private plane building may begin to catch up with the times.
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That was a bit of wishful thinking: “The 2nd World War, unlike the 1st, has not developed into wholesale slaughter of humans.”
America’s Floating Power Plants
Should the United States be attacked, these new ships will supply light, heat and power to cities whose power plants have been bombed or sabotaged.
THE armada of floating “stand-by” electrical power barges which the United States plans to station along our waterways adjacent to important production centers, is the direct result of lessons being learned by American observers in the present war in Europe.
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What do you do when your sub gets stuck under the icepack? Get out and pull of course!
Actually that picture kind of reminds me of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride at Disney Land.
Under the Pole in a Submarine
by CAPTAIN SIR HUBERT WILKINS
famous Polar Explorer “The greatest adventure in the world”—no milder sentence than this can adequately describe the daring plan of penetrating beneath arctic waters in a submarine, as set forth in these pages by Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins, the famous Polar explorer who conceived the idea. Perilous and fantastic as the scheme sounds, the odds against the daring adventurers are not so formidable as the layman supposes.
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