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Monday, 22 November 2010

Ville d'océan

Presenting Leon Feoquinos's, a French engineer of Marseilles, vision of a mid-ocean city intended as a welcome break of the trans-Atlantic air traveler.

Rumour has is that M Feoquios had a dart board with Charles Lindbergh's face on it.
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2 comments:

  1. jayessellMonday, 22 November 2010 at 00:09:00 GMT-8

    Weren't mid-ocean micro countries in the news recently?

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  2. eonMonday, 22 November 2010 at 03:29:00 GMT-8

    I noticed that grand plans like this disappeared like water on a hot rock after WW 2. Increased ranges of commercial aircraft were the main reason (that also ended the era of the great transatlantic ocean liners).

    But I've long suspected that a major factor was the night of 18-19 June, 1944- when an Atlantic gale smashed the Mulberry Harbor and Bombardon breakwater off the Normandy beachheads.

    Bombardon got it worst, precisely because being the breakwater, it was more exposed beyond the headland. And once it broke up, pieces of it became battering rams that smashed everything inshore of them.

    Now imagine something like this, in mid-ocean, getting slammed by a Force 10 wind. That outer ring would become a magazine of projectiles aimed right at the inner harbor.

    If they were lucky, bits of it might wash up at Land's End.


    cheers

    eon

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