Does anyone know what happened to the Rubber Bandit?
Does anyone know what happened to the Rubber Bandit?
All wound-up and overextended!
Don't ya think that's a bit of a stretch?
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All snappy retorts, I applaud you all, but inquiring minds would like to know who or what is the "Rubber Bandit"?
There's a little more info (and a photo) here:
http://blog.cafefoundation.org/?p=3992
(Not to mention at least one more terrible pun... )
Hal Bryan
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Thanks for the info Ron & Hal, very cool, didn't know this had been achieved. The little boy in all of us endures....the size of the toys just gets larger.
The Rubber Bandit was a fun project started by (I believe) a group at Van Nuys airport in Los Angeles, CA. It was a fairly large airplane, I'm guessing 40-50 foot span, with a tubular fuselage containg a very large mult-strand rubber band, to be wound up by an external powered winder. I'm surprised no one seems to remember it. I last saw it in a hangar at an airport I stopped at on my way from San Diego to Oshkosh some years ago - perhaps 1997. I have a couple of photos of it in the hangar, but don't recall the name of the airport.