Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Flying Cars

Have you ever dreamt of the day you can buzz around in your own flying machine? Well the inventors you're about to meet are trying to make their dreams your reality. . . a world where you can commute to work by air in your own personal flying machine. And the folks at NASA have even begun to figure out how to prevent traffic jams in the sky.

Flying Cars
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Would you like to have your own personal flying machine?

DID YOU KNOW?

  • One of the earliest attempts at a flying car was the Curtiss Autoplane, which dates back to 1917. It had three wings, three seats and was made of aluminum.
  • Henry Ford dreamed of bringing the flying car to every American home. But he abandoned plans to mass produce the sky flivver when a pilot died during a test flight.

Comments

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1
flying cars would be fantastic, outrageously fantastic!!!!!!!
Posted by danielshelhart on Thu, May 15, 2008 12:02 AM ET
2
Been waiting since watching the Jetsons 40 years ago.
Posted by blutrane56 on Thu, May 15, 2008 9:14 AM ET
3
This would never happend, at least not here in the United States. We cant even protect our boders how the hell would we protect our selfs from any terrorist tring to come over with a flying car and blow them self up. Society is not ready and to tell you the truth we are much safer as a country not having flying cars. There would have to be some real hard guidelines to enable ordinary people to drive these machines not to mention DUI.
Posted by rosannaluna@att.net on Thu, May 15, 2008 11:20 AM ET
4
They would be amazing and should be made available ASAP. Esp. the Moller Air Car since it can virtually fly itself under computer control via GPS coordinate navigation - you don't have to worry about DUI, since it's on auto-pilot the whole time. Let my air cars go! (in best Moses accent)
Posted by robjoelowe on Thu, May 15, 2008 6:31 PM ET
5
Oh God! robot human, robot pet, cloning, flying cars....what next? real mutant comes to life?
Posted by atinlanglouis on Thu, May 15, 2008 6:58 PM ET
6
Ok, isn't that "Carter Copter" -- which he said was something completely new -- just an autogyro, which have been around since the 1920's? Not saying they aren't nifty, just that they aren't new.
Posted by rmhartman on Thu, May 15, 2008 7:02 PM ET
7
I've known about the Moller Skycar for the past six years and considered investing in the California based design. The FAA has already been working on the air highways and the GPS systems have taken the safety factor to the point of self navigating this vehicle. No need to even consider DUI since it will fly itself safely and carefully. The only deterrent is fuel costs, and that problem is already being addressed. As the prices come down after they are introduced for several years, the present ground vehicles will become obsolete, since this is the direction automakers have been heading for the past fifty years. Back in 1959 Ford Motor Company already had a carbureator that provided 1800 miles to the tank of gas. So that is next for the Skycar. Too bad the oil and gas industry paid Ford a fortune to withhold the carbureator. We need it now, so it's past time for them to release it also.
Posted by housemouce1 on Thu, May 15, 2008 7:07 PM ET
8
The possibilities are there ,but the question is on the control of the movements of the same as already there is jam on the roads .
Posted by richard.chobela on Thu, May 15, 2008 7:11 PM ET
9
First flight tests of Moller skycar are over 6 years old, and proved exceptionally safe. Check this one out at their website and you can see this is nothing new, It's just that, now is the right time to release their vehicle. The price is still a might high, but once in mass production, it will become the normal car of the day and we will have reached our future.
Posted by housemouce1 on Thu, May 15, 2008 7:14 PM ET
10
HEY osannaluna@att.net; You are worried about terrorist coming in through the borders? Terrorist have been here for years. Hope you are all ready!
Posted by mrgadgets38 on Thu, May 15, 2008 7:17 PM ET
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