Page 37 - Studio Internatinal - October 1974
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Panamarenko has the same ambition for all If you are overtaken on the motorway one
these pedal planes: to make them lighter and day, by a car with propellers which goes up into
lighter. In 1972, he went to England to try out the air, flies over you and comes down in front
the smallest plane which has ever flown on the of you, don't be alarmed: it isn't agent 007 in a
Kremer competition course: the plane weighs new CIA gadget, it's Panamarenko, the engineer,
10 kg, up until then the minimum weight of a on board his latest experimental car.
pedal plane was 50 kg. 'When you weigh 60 kg Artist, engineer, builder of aircraft, aeronaut,
and the plane 10 kg, it's almost as if you had astronaut, inventor: Panamarenko is all these at
wings.' The plane only did 50 metres, because once and in turn, the great thing being not to
the wings were so light that they turned on get trapped; 'you must be able to escape when
themselves, but Panamarenko is not so easily it's all too much'.
discouraged: he is developing another model lrmeline Lebeer
with a new propulsion system.
(Opposite page top four photographs) The structure
of the car. The rear with the fan jets, front wheel
suspension and steering wheel, the mould of the car,
front wheels. (Below) Scotch Gambit (This page)
Drawing of man-powered fan propelled aircraft and
two photographs of U-Control IV (60 foot span, man- 135
powered).
