Card C00268

RBF DEFINITIONS
Air Delivery & Submarine Cities:

"and we could have vertol tugs to get you into altitude and
then start you horizontal. I want you to understand that that
is a very practical art and it will come.
(2)
"So then we are going to have all those container ships going
by air particularly as we cut down on the wights of materials.
I first began to talk about freight by air in the mid-1930's
when
we didn't have any transoceanic yet-- flying boats, yes,
but there
was no land for landings..... You first got freight
by
air with the Ford tri-motors moving mining gear into places
you could
never go before except by air. Well, I'm simply
saying that we're moving into the miniaturization of everything;
we are going to get into the great containers and they are
going to contain less weight goods and this is all going by air.
"With design science we can work out what we can do by water
with
the sea as a resource. The sea bottom could not be more
important. You could not dock ships at sea, one with the other,
due to the rolling
of the sea. The great tonnage is in there,
but the
mass attraction would chew them to pieces. You have to
always go to harbors; and there are not many harbors around the
world so you have to go enormous distances to transfer your"
Tape #2 transcript, p.7; RBF to W. Wolf, 15 Jun '74