booth throughout the National Automobile Show in New York
City's Grand Central Palace.

However, in February of the same year I was so sure of the
eventual successful jet and rocket power plant development that
in anticipation of its imminent realization I built three full-scale
experimental transports of appropriate aeronautical conforma-
tion, embodying strategic steerability controls in respect to
eventual omni-directionable steerability, loadability and ma-
neuvering as these related to centers of balance, effort and stress.
I hoped that these experiments would hasten man's practical
realization and enjoyment of all-medium navigation by hover-
able, yet swift, spot-alighting and spot-take-off transportation,
thus opening up vast new ranges of preferred earth-dwellability,
when extension of chemistry of the metallurgical heat-level
strength ratios appropriate to thrust-supported, plummeting, air-
land-water craft should be realized.

I felt that the ground taxiing and cross-wind travel problems
of such wingless "fish" would be more difficult to solve than
the aeronautical maneuvering problems to be encountered. This
proved a worthwhile assumption, for the ground contact ma-
neuvering problems proved to be many and difficult to over-
come, as the land contacting problems of vessels of all types of
either the sea or air have always been. Where there is plenty
of sky room for the plane and sea room for the boat, time is
afforded to reestablish controls when breaks in regular function-
ing occur. The liquid and gaseous mediums are chemically
bonded in flexural freedoms, permitting energy-event contact
stress distributions to innocuous magnitudes, but the crystalline
state concentrates its energy effect. Crystalline-structured ships
in liquid and gaseous mediums provide convergent-divergent
systems in equilibrious balance, but crystalline ships and crystal-
line earth converge all their potential contact energies at point
of contact. Pneumatic tires are packaged sky oceans to insulate
earth and ship and to distribute their potential energies of con-
tact. I chose this landed phase of the omni-transports experi-
mental development, not only because the metallurgy was not
quite ready, but because this was the hazard zone where lurked
the preponderance of frustrations to be overcome on the way to

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