Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 05, 2020

now if only he can kick a football held by Lucy

Well, now I’m wondering what we’ll get for Sunday.

Brown Airlines is in business.

It not only flew, it changed the colors on its wings and tail, too!

It needed a kick-start.

“Are you going to fly it in the sky?”

“No, I thought I’d try underwater this time.”

Planes aren’t really your thing, Charlie Brown. Have you considered a kite? I’m sure you’ll have much more luck with a kite.

The wings turned black in the last two panels.

Yellow on top, black on bottom.

aka The Pentagon method of funding appropriation…

Just like an old TV set. Hit it and it works.

sometimes you just have to kick it to wing it

Maybe try that with a kite, CB.

Reminds me of a rubber band powered plane made from a kit Grandparents bought at the Washington DC airport in 1947 on our trip back home to Chatham NJ. I added quite a few more extra long rubber bands for a longer higher flight. The plane frame was covered with thin balsa wood instead of paper. It took off from a neighbor’s drive way over a large area of grass, & climbed high in circles for about 8 minutes until it got stuck in a tree. When retrieved from tree, fuselage had condensed several inches from extreme rubber band power. Neighbor’s kids & others from the neighborhood were impressed with it’s only flight.

Not enough foot-pounds of torque in the initial attempt.

My dad worked on the Valkyrie project in the 1960’s.

They built two. One crashed.

In a later strip, Charlie Brown got so fed up with his kite that he mangled it up and kicked it, prompting Lucy to say, “It’s flying!”

The precursor of the kite and the football.

All’s well that ends well.

Khaki shorts!