Popular Mechanics, August 1961
What could go wrong? That's the World's Safest Plane!
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Preview: the '62 cars - when I was a kid my family had one of those, a '62 Rambler station wagon.
I want to know more about adding sound to 8mm movies
I wanna see if the storage shelters for bikes and tools look as cool as the plane on the cover does!
Don't worry, they tell you how to survive when it crashes crashes!
I remember growing up, my best's friends dad had a subscription to Popular Mechanics. Every cover had some kind of make believe tech on the front. I legit though it was just a sci-fi mag from the covers. But I guess they did talk about some real things inside? In the 90's all I remember seeing on those covers at my friends house, were personal helicopters and personal flying car kits on the covers lol
I saw a post recently showcasing (satirically) how the future has been predicted in popular media circa 50's to present day; there was definitely a time where the future was bright & fantastical! Future science mags & TV programmes have always straddled that line of ridiculous and real.
I love it personally, so long as its not to feed a billionaire, that wonder of what could be is a fantastic thing!
Seems like the futurists back then loved big fins and bright colors. I love it too!