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REALIZES DREAM

wings it to

CHARLES BOWMAN’S
revolutionary nautical con-
cept will literally take flight
at this yeo<’s Nanaimo to
Vancouver Bathtub Race.

When the West Vancouver ar-
chitect-inventor learned that the
race was an open competition, he
saw the chance to realize a lifelong
dream: to enter a_ space-age
bathtub with a secret stabilizer —
water-wings.

On July 20, Bowman will be
piloting across Georgia Strait 2
vessel that would make Monty
Python proud: a flying bathtub.

After a perfectly normal educa-
tion, first at West Vancouver High
School and at the University of
British Columbia’s school of ar-
chitecture, Bowman began to ir-
dulge his creativity.

First came Canada’s original
foam house, which he censtructed
in Quesnel.

Apart from invention, Bowman
has designed sets at CBC, orga-
nized a 25-unit condominium tur-
nkey project, played trombone
with Arthur Delamont, served on
the B.C. Industrial Design Com-
mittee and the Vancouver Art
Gallery’s board of directors.

After several years of study in

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Los Angeles, Bowman returned to
Vancouver recently, eager to turn
his hand to individual owner avia-
tion design, and to plunge his
company. Basic Productions Ltd.,

ARCHITECT and
Charles Bowman...is ready to fly

inventor

his bathtub in Nanaimo's
notorious annual event.

into the proliferation of show
planes for show business aviation.

FLYING TUB

The first of Bowman's bizarre
ideas to reach fruition is the Flying
Tub. The design is being guarded
carefully until Sunday's offical

Jaunch.
But the News, after diligent in-
vestigation, has learned that

Bowman’s racing vessel is a basic
bathtub affixed to an ultra-light
Bowman-designed aircraft.

lying bathtub

race

The West Vancouver inventor
claims his entry not only meets all
Bathtub Race requirements, but ail
Department of Transport flight
regulations.

“The aim of the entry is to
return fun to the increasingiy
competitive Bathtub Race,’’
Bowman said. ‘‘This is one of the
very few open design competitions
around, and my idea is to enter a
tub that complies stringently with
all the rules, but that gives wings
to the old idea."”

Bowman claims inventors are

hamstrung by government and big
business regulations that are no
longer valid because of new
technology, new materials and the
ubiquitous computer.
‘Inventors must be free and in-
dependent to create and go on to
new ideas,’’ Bowman said. ‘*When
inventions are owned by big
business, the company staff, who
do not have the vision of the in-
ventor, often have the power to
control him.

“Canada has to devise ways to
ease its inventors into new in-
novative fields that will further the
country. | think all governmental
rules should be thrown out every
five years and the situation
reassessed,

‘“‘Who knows I may yet get to
design the first-ever flying city,
someone has to.’’

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