Smoky Stover's Fabulous Foomobile For Real

A real life version of Smokey Stover's two-wheeled "foomobile" was eventually built. How could they make this seemingly impossible vehicle work? What was it's secret?

 

 

 

 

 

Here we see Smokey Stover in his distinctive two-wheeled fire engine, or whatever it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 It has been called a "Foo Fighter", a name which was used on this big little book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real life pilots in World War II claimed to have sighted mysterious "foo fighters" thought at the time to be some sort of experimental aircraft used by the Germans. Here we see the Smokey Stover version on an American B-17.

 

 

 

 

 

A B-29 with Smokey Stover nose art.

 

 

 

Reblogged from http://www.40thbombgroup.org/40thbombgroupaircraft.html 

 

 

 

Eventually, a real life version was built of Smokey Stover's unique vehicle. 

 

 

 

This article tells all about the "foomobile". 

 

 

 Except how it works.

 

 

 

 

The secret of how this "Foomobile" operated was revealed in another article.

 

 

 

 

In addition to the "foo" business, Smoky Stover stories featured a cat named "Spooky" and had repeated references to "1506 Nix Nix" and "Notary Sojac".

 

 

 Which are shown here-

 

 

and there.

 

 

THE END!

 

 

 

Foo Fighters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter

Smokey Stover:
http://www.smokey-stover.com/





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Dick Tracy Meets Smokey Stover

Smokey Stover was a popular comic strip by Bill Holman. Although Smokey Stover was supposed to be a fireman, few if any of his adventures involved going out and fighting fires. He seemed to be more preoccupied with something called "Foo" and was sometimes called a "Foo Fighter", so that might be what he really thought must be fought, though he spent no more time fighting foo in the strip than he did fire.

And actually this Smokey Stover comic strip just has a picture of Dick Tracy hanging on the wall in one panel, but that's close enough.

Smokey Stover site:
http://www.smokey-stover.com/

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