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- spacerobot, on 01/14/2009, -2/+15So it's basically a powered parachute that doubles as a car? Why didn't anyone think of this sooner? It seems so basic and awesome.
- techweenie1, on 01/14/2009, -0/+9Does not actually show it flying except for a lame picture...fail.
- Betrayer, on 01/14/2009, -0/+6Will anyone believe him in 30 years... "I flew a car to Timbuktu and back" ..ok gramps whatever
- Anubis2051, on 01/14/2009, -1/+7Next season on Top Gear....
- MrSparkle666, on 01/14/2009, -0/+5Yes, it is.
- EklektikMC, on 01/14/2009, -1/+6They promised us flyi... oh, well I'm still waiting for my personal jetpack.
- GiggleStick, on 01/14/2009, -0/+5That depends on the terrain. If there's a river without a bridge, which will work better?
- xptoast, on 01/14/2009, -1/+6It is a road legal car. It has a wing of sorts and is air powered while in the air. How is that not a true flying car? Just because the wings deployment sucks doesn't mean it is not a flying car by definition.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 01/14/2009, -2/+7Where we're going, we won't need roads.....
- Thebruce88, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4Most people can't drive in two dimensions. Give them three....
- MrSparkle666, on 01/14/2009, -1/+5Looks like it fits the definition of a flying car to me: It's street legal. It can fly under it's own power. It's 'wing' takes only a few minutes to deploy. So what if its flight mechanism is attached by ropes rather than a fixed wing? It may not be as elegant, but it suits the definition.
- sox101, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3"The engineers say it should be easier and safer to fly than any other aircraft as it has no pitch control - the pilot cannot make the nose dip or rise, making it impossible to stall or dive."
This just in: a new car has been developed which cannot turn left. Engineers say this car is much safer - the driver cannot turn left, making it impossible to cross the center median into oncoming traffic. - xptoast, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3Would be better if it had a hang glider attached to the roof that was on a mechanism that could collapse itself when driving around and extend back out into a locked position for flying. I am working on a project similar at home. It is lets say a later attachment. I am going to try to build it so that the whole flying part comes off as one unit.
*I said this first and is documented on a server with a timestamp.* - xptoast, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3http://farm1.static.flickr.com/242/516746489_f7825 ...
Flying dingy...see how easy that is? - inactive, on 01/14/2009, -4/+7Harry Potter!
- Hesei, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3I want one now...
http://www.airframesunlimited.com/ - AppleGeek, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3This is not new. I have seen these cars with the wing all over the place. Though they were not quite as advanced as this one.
- kingUssop, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3Pretty cool. You can see it doing a little bit of flying here, not too high off the ground though.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7qg3lNsxmQ
I'd love to see what it looks like a couple thousand feet up. - oriondr, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3Nice, you can go further and faster if you keep it on the ground, though :)
- metik, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2I think things like this and hyperlight airplanes are the "flying car" of the future. People are trying to make a car that can take off from anywhere. Why not just make a car that can drive some where and then be flown.
- xptoast, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Sort of like...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Motolotnia_Prent ...
Flying man. There you go. - Myztry, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2I don't know it's a local saying or not. But besides Timbuktu being an actual place, (parts of) Australia also use the name to refer to a "far far away - most distant" place. It's used in an imaginary context as a place that is unreachable.
"From here to Timbuktu" is probably the most common usage, irrespective of actual destination. - oriondr, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Depends if it floats as well
- sox101, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Used in Canada as well.
- pinchduck, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2It's a car. It flies under it's own power. How is this not a flying car? Heck, it takes me longer to take the top off of my Jeep YJ than it takes him to deploy the airfoil. I suppose you'll tell me I don't own a convertible.
- Meocross, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2No more no more
- zemoxian, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2....there are fewer things to crash into. Just, please, no texting while in flight.
- zemoxian, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2It flies on its own power with its parasail wing. It is also street legal and fits in a standard parking space/garage.
Sure, set up is manual, but back in the day, you had to get out in front of a car and crank it up by hand. If there is a strong enough market for this one, they will make improvements and competition will move in. - saranagati, on 01/14/2009, -1/+3i dont think it counts as a flying car because from what i can tell, you would need to disconnect the sail to drive around, or at the very least stop the vehicle, put the sail back in then continue to drive. Maybe if the vehicle did this on its own as well as deployed it on its own i would consider it a flying car.
- zemoxian, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2The Wright Bros. first flight is shorter than an modern airplane's wingspan. If they get this off the ground and make it to and from Timbuktu they will have a functioning aircraft that you can park in your garage and drive to the airport. All that's missing are the inflatable pontoons...
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Manned Missles....
Where the ***** is my cowboy hat? - MrSparkle666, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2But Christmas was just last month! Are you telling me I have to wait a whole year now!
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -3/+4Timbuktu is a real place, i always thought that was an old person saying.
- sumohippo, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1But the advantage of a parachute system is that it can't stall. The pilot has no pitch control, only throttle control (for altitude). Assuming the powerplant generates enough thrust to keep the thing in a climb at full power, this is genius. You lose a little fine control (can't turn power into airspeed rather than climbrate) but that seems like a decent tradeoff for this sort of thing.
- MCA2142, on 01/14/2009, -2/+3So let me get this straight. Going by your logic, if I strap a fan and a parasail to my back, am I a flying man? No.
A flying car should be structurally self contained. Without anything flapping out. Sure this car can fly, but it isn't a flying car. It is a car with a parasail. - xptoast, on 01/14/2009, -1/+2Um...yea you would be a flying man. Who says you have to have everything self contained?
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -1/+1yes! that's because it originated in the british empire days you tit. when timbuktu was really really far away, and there were no sea trains or sky vehicles to speak of (my giddy aunt!). people referred to it because it was very rare people would actually go that far (and come back i guess).
you also originated from britain unless you're an aboriginal (see, i'm cultural me)... - inactive, on 01/14/2009, -1/+1flying car my ass. it's just a heavy wheeled paraglider. a real flying car would, you know, be a car that um, like, flew on it's own?
- gfelstein55, on 08/03/2009, -0/+0Travel in flying car!! Are you crazy?!
- StarWarsFever, on 01/14/2009, -5/+3Timbuktu, how fitting
- wapityyy, on 01/14/2009, -4/+2I want to see it fly so bad!
- MCA2142, on 01/14/2009, -6/+4Somewhere Paul Moller is in tears due to the careless use of the "Flying Car" moniker.
- Karebear4816, on 01/14/2009, -4/+1This isn't really a "flying car"...
- batmanz, on 01/14/2009, -5/+2These comments suck.
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