Some forgotten future from August 1964. These images are from that month's issue of Popular Mechanics, speculating about vehicles that might come one day using electrohydrodynamics to generate airflow for lift.

The proximate cause was an experimental model made by aviation pioneer and publicity hound Alexander de Seversky. He was a Russian emigré living in the US, puttering along in his own lane after being forced out of the mainstream post-WWII.

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