ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 1月25日 23時17分

From @nytarchives: Introducing the aerocycle. Part helicopter, part Segway, this personal flying device was the focus of an article published in @ニューヨーク・タイムズ in 1956. (Of course, the Segway didn’t exist when our photographer Patrick Burns captured this scene at Camp Kilmer, a U.S. Army camp in New Jersey.) The device’s designer believed that it had 2 advantages over conventional helicopters: It was more stable and easier to control. “Like so many devices billed as ‘simple to operate,’ the aerocycle did not quite live up to its advance notices,” the paper reported in January that year. “But it did give a weirdly impressive idea of how the average infantryman could achieve many times his current mobility,” the story went on. The first man to test the machine “went up only 4 feet or so because he is new to the game,” @ニューヨーク・タイムズ explained. “He leaned forward and skimmed across the ground.” When a more experienced rider hopped aboard, he “took the craft up 10 feet or more.” Ultimately, as you probably won’t be surprised to learn, the aerocycle didn’t, well, take off. “The blades would wobble, then crash together. Close to the ground, they would kick up all manner of dust and rocks,” @ニューヨーク・タイムズ reported in a 2014 feature called “A Brief History of Failure.” Follow @nytarchives to see more like this. #tbt

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