The Transition "Personal Air Vehicle" is expected to be released in late 2009 and has just shown its operational prototype.
The estimated purchase price is $148,000. Owners will drive the car from their garage to an airport where they will then be able to fly within a range of 100 to 500 miles (800 km). It will carry two people plus luggage and will operate on a single tank of premium unleaded gas. It will have a 115 mph cruising speed.
Flying Car update
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Flying Car update
Flying Car Promised in 2009
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Beast the Slacker
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Re: Flying Car update
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Flying Car Promised in 2009
Baloney! We had one in 1985.
Hey, just 7 more years till the Cubs win the World Series!
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MarleysGh0st
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As that web page says:
Of course, the FAA would have fits about any flying car that could open up the airspace to masses of drivers. And they'd have felt that way even before homeland security became an issue.
I believe these "drivable airplanes" have been around--if none too successfully--for a long time. There's a big difference from that and a flying car that you could take to the air when stuck in a traffic jam.The real market for these vehicles is solidly in the hundreds of units per year. So they are not replacing cars but light sport aircraft. They are toys for the wealthy. This is an airplane first, and not a replacement for anybody's car.
Of course, the FAA would have fits about any flying car that could open up the airspace to masses of drivers. And they'd have felt that way even before homeland security became an issue.
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tanstaafl2
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Looks like a fun option for the wealthy. Now the VTOL aircraft would be a great option but based on the link they are much farther from functional reality, less carlike at present it appears and are probably much harder to fly than standard fixed wing aircraft.
But it would be good to be able to convert to aircraft mode, fly straight up out of traffic and land in your driveway or the parking lot of your destination!
But it would be good to be able to convert to aircraft mode, fly straight up out of traffic and land in your driveway or the parking lot of your destination!
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~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
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