Terrafugia Transition 'flying car' gets go-ahead from US air authorities

Telegraph UK ^ | 06/29/2010 | Tom Chivers

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Nothing new under the sun! From over 40 years ago. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19307-2004May11.html I was blessed to have worked with Mr. Fulton during my USAF years. True Renaissance man.

It had to have been new when Mr. Fulton invented it.

Or, if he got it from somebody else, it had to have been new at some point.

[r9etb]

All those people in the 50s who envisioned we’d all by driving flying cars by now forgot to take into account a micromanaging government bureaucracy that killed the possibility due to over-regulation.

While over-regulation is generally a problem, in this case the (im)practicalities of flying cars would have killed the idea in any case.

Just imagine a rush-hour jam of 100,000 flying cars all trying to get home at once.....

[ican'tbelieveit]

I saw the Jetsons... it worked.

[UCANSEE2]

Here's one from 1919.

[CodeToad]

My office is right next to the local airport. My dream home is about 30 miles out. This would be awesome for probably 240 days a year. A simple 20 minute commute.

[az_gila]

One of the older designs, Molt Taylor's Aerocar, even got certified...

http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Taylor%20Aerocar.asp#TopOfPage

[Poundstone]

It was trucked in. In summer 2008, it had not yet flown.

[bert]

They will have Flying J mid air refueling blimps to solve that problem

[bgill]

Cool!

[UCANSEE2]

You know what you call a ‘flying car’ ?

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An airplane.

[az_gila]

You know what you call a ‘flying car’ ?
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An airplane.

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Nah... my airplane won't drive down the road with it's 33 ft wing span...:^)