BUCKMINSTER FULLER MASTER INDEX
Transportation

General Buckminster Fuller's Universe p 17 Index/Airplane Index/Automobile Industry

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World Facts and Trends 49, 58 Index/Travel Index/Airplanes vs Railroads

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Your Private Sky R Buckminster Fuller, Discourse 64, 66, 68, 71, 73, 87, 117 Index/Houses & Infrastructure
Index/Deployment: Man's Increasing Deployment Pattern Index/Air Transport Index/Land & Sea Transport
Index/Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion

Index/Automobile

Index/Omnimedium Transport
Index/Population Density: Manhattan Jet Dispersal Index/Mobility Index/Railroad Industry
Index/Trolley System for the Whole Earth Index/Air Delivery & Submarine Cities
TRANSPORTATION: AIR

Aviation and:

Buckminster Fuller's Universe

pp 124-25

- USA

History of Flying Cars

Sky Pad Technologies 12-00 city? ?? "

  Airborne Personalized Travel

Moller International

Ideas/Ch 10/Transport/VTOL

Davis CA "

The Private Aircar

J. Storrs Hall 01-99 city? ?? "

Airships:               General

Airships Rise Again Popular Science, 01-01;78-83 New York NY "

     CargoLifter      

11-99; lighter-than-air 10,000km; 120km/h Frankfurt - germany

Cooper Ship      

12-00; geodesic dome 15 helium-filled cells Dallas TX USA

Hexnet Airship    

11-98; hexagonal Lighter-than-air; g steele Southboro MA "

Quantum Aerostatics

Geodesic Tensegrity Tet Truss Popular Science 1-01 pp 78-83 Albuquerque NM "

Ducted Fans: ABC News

02-11-99 "Highway to the Skies" New York NY USA

Avro

US Air Force 1954-59 Washington DC "

City/Turbo Hawk

2-seater; Rafi Yoeli; 07-01 Urban Aeronautics (Romeo Yankee) Tel Aviv - Israel

Fletcher, Charles J

US 02,988,301 10-58 Sparta NJ USA

Lockheed

Long-range military VTOL Popular Science 12-01, p 71 Bethesda MD "

Moller VTOL Skycar

1-4 seater; Die-Cast Model for sale Moller Int'l Article; 12-98 Davis CA "

Moshier, Mike

Exo-Skeletor; SoloTrek Co SJ Merc News, 10-15-00; 1B, 6B Sunnyvale " "

Rautavuori, Iiro

3-20 seater VTOL aircraft Ptera series Helsinki - Finland

Sky Rider

Macro Industries

07-01

city? ? ?

Star-Craft

2-seater VTOL passenger (09-85) N Salt Lake UT USA

Helicopters: CarterCopters

VTOL

For Delivering Domes

city? ? ?
Canard-Rotor-Wing " Air Taxis - - -
Sikorsky CH/MH 53E 16 tons payload Popular Science, 7-2002; 65 city? ?? USA

Omni-Medium

The Transmodal Capsule (TMC); Innovative Transportation Tech group Seattle WA "

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University of Washington See: Ideas/Ch 10/Travel Pods - - -

Passenger Planes:     A380

820 Passengers Airbus; 2006 Toulouse - France

Antonov 225

1887 Passengers Soviet union; 1988 city? - Russia
Trends: Costs '30: $100/passenger mi; 2000: $10 BBC News Special Report, 01/2007 London -- England
TRANSPORTATION: CATEGORY
General Bucky Fuller Reader pp 166-7
TRANSPORTATION: DYMAXION
House & Buckminster Fuller's Universe pp 143, 146

Map &

" 241, 247-48
TRANSPORTATION: GLOBAL
General Buckminster Fuller's Universe p 127
TRANSPORTATION: HOUSING
General Buckminster Fuller's Universe p 257
TRANSPORTATION: LAND

Dymaxion Car: Article & pic

09-01; Color pic Article by Greg Trayling city? ?? Canada

WNET

09-01 b&w pics; movies; J Baldwin city? ?? USA

Nat'l Auto Museum

09-01 Has 1934 Dymaxion Transport Reno NV "

Pic, Color

08-01 National Auto Museum " " "

Pic, B&W

09-01; APASE 1933 Chicago World's Fair Chicago IL "

Patent Drawing

09-01 Buckminster Fuller Institute-CA Slide " " "
Omni-Medium The Transmodal Capsule (TMC); Innovative Transportation Tech group Seattle WA "

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University of Washington See: Ideas/Ch 10/Travel Pods " " "

Three-Wheel-Cars:

09-01 R Q Riley Enterprises Scottsdale AZ "

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3-wheelers.com; 2005 owner? city? -- England

Tetra Packer 1

09-01 3-Wheeled Car city? -- Japan

Vince's Favorite Cars

09-01 Vince Budnick city? ?? ?

Transit Modules

Personal R Buckminster Fuller; Selected Ideas - CA USA

Hooked Together

Train Selected Ideas - " "

Discussion Group

Transit-Alternatives Innovative Transportation Tech, U Wash Seattle WA "

ULTra

Urban Light Transport Pods Advanced Transport Systems Cardiff -- Wales
TRANSPORTATION: MIGRATION
Patterns & Buckminster Fuller's Universe

p 251

TRANSPORTATION: NAVIGATION
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) ?

(get & input refs)

TRANSPORTATION: OF
Building Sub-Assemblies Ideas & Integrities

pp 268-69

Geodesic Structures

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215, 269, 279, 292

TRANSPORTATION: WATER

Omni-Medium

The Transmodal Capsule (TMC); Innovative Transportation Technology group Univ Wash Seattle WA USA

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See: Ideas/Ch 10/Travel Pods -
Rowing Needles (or shell) Owned by Carl Solway Gallery; BFI News 9-98 - Cincinnati OH "

Kataram

07-01 RUM Int'l Longboat Key FL "

Sailboats

Selected Ideas

RBF

- - "

Ships: Freedom

Floating City; Continuously Circles Globe - city? ?? ?

Subs: Largest

Typhoon Aircraft Carrier (above) See: Biblio/About/Articles/2004/3-1

Russia

Passenger or

 Cargo

Biblio/About/Articles/1997/2-19

Ideas/Ch 3/Tets/Buildings/Pyramid/Cities/Water

Submersible

Deep Flight Aviator; G Hawkes; Popular Science, Apr 2003

p 87

New York NY USA

Supersonic

New Scientist mag July 2000 London -- UK

Underwater

 Vehicles

Mergo 10-Person - city? ?? Canada

US Subs, Inc

Business/

Personal

Vero Beach FL USA
Trends: Cost 1930: $100; 2000: $30 (2-way ocean freight & port charges/short ton) BBC News London -- England
TRANSPORTATION: WORLD
War II Buckminster Fuller's Universe

pp 231-2


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