Re: [MV] willys jeep...gyro

From: Steve Malikoff (MIL-VEH account) (44gpw@phaedra.apana.org.au)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 15:29:04 PDT


G'day Colin,
    The "fleep" was the flying jeep project done in Melbourne. There is a
good 4-page article on it, including two pages of 1/35 and 1/72 scale 3-view
diagrams in the 2-89 issue of the Australian Plastic Modeller's Association
Journal. You can order this back issue from APMA, see our website
   http://www.tac.com.au/~sljenkins/apma.htm

The fleep was built but did not actually make it into the air. The pictures
you have would be of the british "Rotabuggy". A two-page article on this
entirely unconnected project (with a page of 1/72 scale 3-views) appeared in
Airfix magazine, November 1970.
I hope that helps,

Steve Malikoff.
steven@phaedra.apana.org.au
steven@malikoff.com

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:13:52PM +1000, col col wrote:
>
> Hi all...
>
> I am wondering if any one on the list happens to have , or know where i can
> get pictures and details of the jeep project that was done at essendon/pt
> cook near melbourne australia in 1943,,,The government carried out
> modifications to a jeep and installed a rotor driven off the power take
> off,,,and added a plywood shell to enable it to fly...it was developed to
> transport personel into jungle areas in new guinea and the islands,,,I have
> some photo copies of the jeep flying...but they are very poor quality and
> not in colour...and there is no indication of where they came from..regards
> and thanks from colin....(australia)
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