http://www.aerocar.com/
Wow. Give him an 'A' for creativity. Anybody want to do a flying 914? I don't think either car will hold up well to full-stall landings and I've got serious issues with the flight controls (Throttle by foot, and rudder with the steering wheel? )
-Ben M.
WTF um, no thanks
uhh... no thanks.
M
ask me again after they've got 100 hrs each on the first 5 production units.
i'm guessing a finished package will be in the $300,000 range.
i'm a little disappointed that an aircraft designed does not know that the GPS satellites are not geosynchronous ...
At Oshkosh, when I was a teenager, there was an El Camino car/plane... and even as a kid.. 'I don't think so!'
...and you know kids... "hey, I could get 6 chicks in that thing, and fly out of the county!"
M
I may want one, for the next time I am being chased by James Bond.
Uh
Is it a fly by instruments only contraption? How does the pilot see?
Also noticed that the Web content is dated 2002. Apparently this bird never took off
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The idea of a an airplane that converts to a car (especially an Elise) has some limited apeal to me, but I don't expect anyone to ever make it work. It's just not practicle. I'd sure fly more often if it was though. One of the reasons I don't fly much is because of the hassle - once you get to your destination airport you have no way to get around. If I fly somewhere I've always got to call somebody to come pick me up at the airport (unless they live on a farm with a big flat pasture I can land on - but that's never happened). One of the biggest hang-ups I have is relying on someone else for transportation.
-Ben M.
Imagine the nav aids...
ILS says you are lined up, and good to go... and the in-dash is screaming at you to take that last right, onto Fornier Rd..
M
There was the 1950 Fulton Airphibian
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The Flying Elise, however, seems to be rooted more in the 1947 ConvAirCar
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Here's a cool flying car. Lockheed C5 Gallaxy. It looks like you have quite a lot of options for the "car" part. Anything from a Vespa to a Peterbuilt should be plug-and-play.
-Ben M.
ps - regarding the windscreen on the Elise - it just looks to me like an exterior sun-shade over the windows.
Edited to add: stupid link won't work - site won't allow direct link to pictures. Had to snag it. Will post below.
In a C5, you could pack a Hummer, an M1-A2 with all the good stuff, and a couple small Porsche collections.
It would be the go anywhere/do anything package... as long as you can find a nice flat 12,000ft long piece of pavement 150ft wide..
M
C-17s have set 33 world records – more than any other airlifter in history -- including payload to altitude, time-to-climb, and short-takeoff-and-landing marks in which the C-17 took off in less than 1,400 feet, carried a payload of 44,000 pounds to altitude, and landed in less than 1,400 feet. These records were set during flight-testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in 2001.
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Uhh... yeah, but the aluminum overcast is more than 'fair to partly cloudy' with a Galaxy.
M
Here's the picture I was trying to link to above:
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They have onboard hair salons, movie theatres, and a food court.
M
I'd have to check, but I think that the Russian Antonov AN-225 is even bigger than the Galaxy. Had one sitting at Lambert out in front of our hanger last year.....Friggin' HUGE!
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rgr that, Antonov is colossal.
Imagine one of those used as a clown car.... you know how many clowns you could get in there?
-circus music plays infinitely-
M
The Antonov was here last year. Stopped to refuel....they payed cash....have one guy who had a big bag of cash.....guess they can't get credit.....
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