SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1966 #2: Man From P.O.W.E.R.N.A.U.T. Reporting!
Andrew Perron
pwerdna at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 17:30:21 PDT 2013
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:04:09 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:
> And so the theme of Powernaut 1966 is revealed.
>
> http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1966.htm#2
Ah, now we get the James Bondishness.
> Of course women go wild for the Powernaut. It's the era of
> Powernaut-mania. But of course we can find one woman who doesn't,
> because there's Women's Liberation.
I would make a joke here, but sadly, in the entirety of the 1960s and
1970s, no one ever actually made a funny "Women's Lib" joke. x,x
> The aircraft Powernaut 1 is totally 1966. It is modeled after the first
> rear-engine race car to win the Indy 500. A. J. Foyt had to learn to
> drive a new kind of car the next year. It was a big deal.
Fascinating! It looks pretty neat, too.
> One may well ask what happened to the rest of the Power Patrol. Heh. I
> think we'll find out in Powernaut 1968. But suffice it to say for now,
> the Powernaut got reinvented for 1966.
As usual!
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, reinvention is his reward.
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