What exactly were they testing? Did they think the car would evaporate at high altitude?

Auto Strapped To Plane Is Tested One Mile Above Earth

A SPECTACULAR “first time in history” —an automobile actually taken for a mile high joy ride—recently astonished onlookers at Floyd Bennet Field, New York.

The plane was a giant Uppercu-Burnelli transport. With a 12-foot wide cabin, there was more than enough room between the wheels of the landing gear to strap on a standard 1935 automobile.

Revolving Paddles Lift Odd-Style Plane

Built entirely without propellers as such, but deriving lift from revolving wings which spin in windmill fashion, a unique auto-airplane invented by Paul Lewis, of Denver, Col., gives promise of portending a new trend of development. Principles of its construction are explained in these photographs and drawings. One of the photos shows the lifting wings being tested in the workshop, where they developed a vertical lift of 12 pounds per horsepower. The diagram immediately above shows how lift is obtained.

This just seems like a bad idea.

FLYING PLANE REFUELS FROM SPEEDING AUTO
Transferring gasoline from an automobile to a speeding airplane was a feat accomplished at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the other day, demonstrating a new way of refueling on the fly. Hitherto an airplane making an endurance flight has been able to take on fuel only from another plane. For the unusual stunt, a small sedan was fitted with a special superstructure to handle the hose, and contact was successfully made between plane and car after a few minutes’ maneuvering. When the fuel tanks had been replenished a supply of oil was pumped to the plane. The success of the stunt depended on keeping the machine at the same speed.

PADDLE-WHEEL PROPELLERS LIFT AND DRIVE NOVEL PLANE

THRESHING the air like giant paddle wheels, four huge propellers serve the double purpose of lifting and propelling an odd wingless plane designed by two Denver, Colo., inventors. Mounted in pairs on struts jutting obliquely upward from the fuselage, the “propeller wings” have opposing blades fixed on a common shaft at an angle of ninety degrees to each other. An automatic mechanism turns the shafts to “feather” the blades so that each upstroke propels the plane forward and each downstroke provides lift. Drive shafts in the struts connect the blades with the motor in the fuselage. The pilot may control blade pitch to gain either greater speed or more lift.