If Star Trek were a thrilling radio dramatic play sandwiched between Ovaltine ad and spots for the stomach upset - agitate power of Moxie , then the Enterprise might perhaps bear a resemblance to its long - fall behind cousin-german , Guido Fallei ’s amphibious dirigible gyrocopter . As the September 1930 issue ofPopular Mechanicsexplained of Fallei ’s craft :
The craft has a single wing , a rotating disk - forge social occasion filled with gas or red-hot zephyr . It is turned by a gasolene engine as is the propeller , while quarter for the crew are arrange on either side . The trunk has retractable wheel so that the ship can be landed on earth or on water [ … ] In lineage , the rotating wing is intended to act as a chute [ … ]
I would watch the ever - hump crap out of Star Trek : The Herbert Hoover years . Every episode would be like a sojourn tothat gangster planet . [ ViaPtak Science Books ]
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