Flying Cars - The Dream is Still Alive
Flying cars have never seemed to move out of the concept phase and yet they remain a fascination for many. The challenge is kind of like designing an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner. At the end of the day you get a product that is mediocre in all three tasks. But innovative materials like carbon-fiber composites have begun dropping in price and allow for the construction of incredibly strong and light structures. These materials along with new lightweight engines are starting to make the dream a reality.
The Terrafugia Transition Proof of Concept Vehicle (pictured below) made its debut at AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, WI this past July. The Transition is a roadable (the preferred industry term) sport aircraft being designed to fly up to 400 nautical miles and to easily convert between road and fly modes from the cockpit/driver's seat.
Flying car at home
Flying Car with Wings Deployed
Flying Car with Wings Folded
A very informative post. I
A very informative post. I am a pilot and live very close to MIT, so therefore I have been following the development of this flying car prototype. If this one comes to full fruition, it can change general aviation as we know it today. Keep posting about it's progress.
About! very interesting)
About! very interesting) Soon everyone will be able to have such a small plane or a mini car. Convenient and very realistic)
a nice dream, but really,
a nice dream, but really, who would actually use it? the idea of having a plane in every garage is comical. Imagine the congestion around the city owned airports, when everybody wants to air-commute to the office 10 miles away, and the waiting time to land. Have a small road accident with it and the $300,000 multi-purpose vehicle is now reporting to Oklahoma, and can't fly. Then we will all see that it was much better to fly airplanes, and drive cars. I'm not trying to dampen anyones spirits, I'm all for innovation, and fun things, and I smile as I write this, imagining an utopian concept of everybody having one. Like the Jetsons. Cheers, all.
Wingnut
Dream On , Dream with
Dream On , Dream with me
Dream for the years
Dream for the laughter
Dream it for the tears
Dream it just for the days may be tomorrow the good lord will take you away.
If the Wright Brothers did not make a dream to fly than certainly we would be walking these days.
Nice modeling done for the product,
Cheers :)
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Wow..awesome... Flying cars
Wow..awesome... Flying cars its very good concept.... every one has dream in their life.. in the same sense the person invented the flying car has too..... everyone's dreams won't come true but his dream came true... I appreciate his work.
Thanks
ha ) just cool !
ha ) just cool !
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