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reply posted on 4-3-2011 @ 05:43 PM by larrydavid
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Thats what I thought.

Why couldnt someone just put 4 wheels on a helicopter and do it that way?

Its not like that guy can just "take off" He still needs a big field or something.


But its still cool.


reply posted on 7-3-2011 @ 09:45 AM by ziplogan
This is more than likely the best flying car concept we will ever see. Not because of anything else but technological restrictions that have been placed on the public sector that TPTB will never allow anything more advanced to be developed and be in the hands of the public... regardless of the training or licenses.

There was another concept car a few years ago that did largely seem to be originally an effort to make something we normally conceive of when we think of a flying car...
No wings and no wheels...

However as costs rose and they hit wall after wall with difficulties I understand it turned into an investment scam to bilk millions of dollars out of investors.

This one is doable... but its a car that can fly - not what I would call a REAL flying car...
The Jetsons come to mind when I think about a flying car... not a striped down dune buggy with a kite on top.
Great effort by the developers... its a working concept... but not interested in buying one.

The real attributes on what most people would think of as a flying car would be -
- Antigravity or the ability to hover in one spot.
- Backup redundancy systems to prevent falling out of the sky should the worst happen...
- No fuel needed - power generation is internal from a reactor or replaceable energy source (non radioactive would be better)
- Full range of motion like a helicopter but without the big blade of death on top.
- Ideally with the ability to fly itself - but with human direction or oversight

Without some or all of these characteristics I class anything without them as a car that can be a plane or at best - a plane that is street legal (in some states)

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