Word: wheelless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This gruesome image has been framed in the consciousness of a great many flabby, middle-aged Americans. And how have they reacted? They are skipping rope in a gym class, jogging around the reservoir, pedaling a pinioned and wheelless bicycle, flailing arms before the bedroom mirror, doing push-ups on the office floor-in a tenth-hour campaign to redeem years of reprehensible physical neglect...
...Chartres have been scratching their heads and stroking their whiskers at the sight of a 170-m.p.h. vehicle that flies without wings astride a single concrete rail. The streamlined craft that keeps the grands-pères guessing is a half-scale experimental model of France's wheelless, one-car "aerotrain." After a year of tests, the French government just gave the go-ahead for construction of a full-sized model that will whisk 84 passengers down a 16-mile test run at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h...
...them from the U.S., and hopes to be turning out 1,500 a month by September. Price: $1,425. > For those who would rather hover than sink: a flying machine that never gets more than 9 in. off the ground. The Dobson Air Dart is a 95-lb. wheelless bug, 8 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, with a kayak-style cockpit and a zo-h.p. engine that drives a fan in the bug's nose. The fan supports the vehicle on a column of air by the same principle as the larger air-supported vehicles under development...
After 2½ months and 10,500 miles, we ended our wheelless camping trip, which led us into 17 states and Canada...