Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Off He Goes in a Cloud of Dust-- Dr. William H. Bertelson, a physician from Neponset, Ill., demonstrates vehicle he constructed in his spare time and calls "Aeromobile" during exhibition at Princeton University's James Forrestal Research Center here today. A variety of oddly shaped vehicles that scoot along several inches off the ground on self-produced cushions of air were shown as some 200 American and European scientists and engineers wound up three-day "Symposium of Ground Effect Phenomena."
Off He Goes in a Cloud of Dust-- Dr. William H. Bertelson, a physician from Neponset, Ill., demonstrates vehicle he constructed in his spare time and calls "Aeromobile" during exhibition at Princeton University's James Forrestal Research Center here today. A variety of oddly shaped vehicles that scoot along several inches off the ground on self-produced cushions of air were shown as some 200 American and European scientists and engineers wound up three-day "Symposium of Ground Effect Phenomena."
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Off He Goes in a Cloud of Dust-- Dr. William H. Bertelson, a physician from Neponset, Ill., demonstrates vehicle he constructed in his spare time and calls "Aeromobile" during exhibition at Princeton University's James Forrestal Research Center here today. A variety of oddly shaped vehicles that scoot along several inches off the ground on self-produced cushions of air were shown as some 200 American and European scientists and engineers wound up three-day "Symposium of Ground Effect Phenomena."

Associated Press · [ca. October 1959]

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