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Song Parodies -> "Bel Geddes Airliner Never Flew"

Original Song Title:

"I Put a Spell on You"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Parody Song Title:

"Bel Geddes Airliner Never Flew"

Parody Written by:

Robert D. Arndt Jr.

The Lyrics

The most visionary flying luxury liner was Norman Bel Geddes' 1929 design for an "intercontinental airliner of 1940." Bel Geddes, together with German-trained aeronautical engineer Otto Koller, envisioned a plane to carry 452 passengers or about twenty times the capacity of existing planes. It would offer accommodations, he later wrote, "equal in spaciousness and comfort to the most modern ocean liner." This was no idle exaggeration, since the crew of 155 included a librarian, gymnast, masseur and masseuse, two headwaiters, two wine stewards, seven musicians, and nine bar stewards! More than two hundred people could dine simultaneously in the plane's main dining room, and 150 could look out from chairs on the promenade deck. Interestingly, although Bel Geddes and Koller made bold and detailed plans for services and accommodations, they showed a certain timidity about the plane's mechanical functions. Their behemoth would fly on twenty engines, but the designers included six more "in reserve," anticipating that some would fail in flight and require repair or total replacement, to be made possible by motors mounted on wheels for easy movement and substitution. Compared to the 195-foot wingspan of the Boeing 747, today's largest airliner, the Bel Geddes seaplane would have been a giant with its 528-foot wing. Visions like Bel Geddes' giant flying wing, although economically unrealistic and technically naive, nevertheless anticipated the mass transit, public carrier nature of travel in the mature aviation age.
Bel Geddes airliner never flew
designed in 1929

Norman Bel Geddes was a fool
Otto Koller designin’
No, it ain’t flyin’

No one could understand it
20 motors spinnin’ round
528 foot wingspan
It could never leave the ground

Bel Geddes airliner never flew
designed in 1929
Crew of 155

Passengers 452
Passengers 452
Passengers 452
Passenger 452- Holy cow!!!
Bigger than a 747
Enormous capacity
More than air travel would allow

Pure insanity
Bel Geddes airliner never flew
designed in 1929
(folly, not fantasy)



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