Local call number: PR75950
Corporate Author: Kobel Feature Photos (Frankfort, Ind.)
Title: [Jess Dixon in his flying automobile]
Date captured: c. 1940
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint: b&w; 5 x 7 in.
Series Title: (Print collections. Series/Collection number: M82- 38, Florida tourist photographs, 1880-1945.)
General Note: Accompanying note: "Built by Jess Dixon of Andalusia, Ala. Can fly forward, backward or straight up or hover in the air. Runs on road or flys across country. 40 H.P. motor, air cooled, speeds to 100 m.p.h."
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/17346
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Pleroma 37 months ago | reply
Extraordinary that his hat stays on. Maybe the down draught is keeping it there?
Rodrigo López1 37 months ago | reply
hahahha i'd love to fly that thing
-sina- 37 months ago | reply
love it.
ChiaraBurzigotti 37 months ago | reply
Very interesting.
Chiara
Paul Hemmen 37 months ago | reply
Very cool!
W10 36 months ago | reply
way kool...!!!
gene.dare 36 months ago | reply
Yeah ! For pedal power ! )'
jamica1 35 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Peter Ellis 35 months ago | reply
very nice !!
inuyashaknight 35 months ago | reply
Woow Cool!
KWD_IMAGES 34 months ago | reply
Wow, what an incredibly classic shot!
victuallers2 31 months ago | reply
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EdZiomek 29 months ago | reply
Amazing. Ingenuity. The Air Force actually produced a working model of this aircraft, sans wheels, that had no rear stabilizing propeller, but two counter-rotating, overheads.
fly_guy2 27 months ago | reply
thats my great great uncle!
fly_guy2 27 months ago | reply
and that wasnt in florida that was in alabama
fly_guy2 27 months ago | reply
petsept [deleted] 24 months ago | reply
De très bons chapeau en 1940 ! Chapeau Jess !
iomarco.urbino 22 months ago | reply
"One should maintain dignity as well as equilibrium, in the quest for the new."
Flymow 21 months ago | reply
That is just excellent!
The layout is entirely logical, too. The main axle intersects with the main rotor and engine shafts, keeping the ever-troublesome transmission compact.
1940? That is spooky, means that the would have preceded both Hiller in the US and Flettner in Germany.... see: www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/hiller_xh-44.php
and: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282
Not sure about the 100 mph and 40 bhp though... when did anything with 40 bhp and
no streamlining do 100 mph? Never mind a helicopter with its woeful efficiencies.
I'm not saying it didn't _feel_ like 100 mph!
State Library and Archives of Florida 13 months ago | reply
What can you do with a flying automobile? Well, make a purse of course. Penny Richards was kind enough to tell us about making the flying car case.