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Handles like a go-kart, flies like a heli: Flying car coming to the USA
New Atlas ^ | July 5, 2024 | Loz Blain

Posted on 07/05/2024 7:50:45 AM PDT by Red Badger

A road-going helicopter that handles like a go-kart and drives at highway speeds - Pegasus

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It drives at highway speeds, handles like a go-kart, transforms from drive to fly mode in three seconds, takes off vertically, and can fly for up to three hours on a hybrid powertrain. This remarkable road-going rotorcraft is now headed to the USA. Based in Melbourne, Australia – but clearly also with a presence in China – Pegasus is now moving its head office and production facilities to Las Vegas. The company says it's been working on its flying car design since 2009. Indeed, the project looks well advanced, and the company's naked early prototypes, first flown around 2016, have long since given way to the handsome, fully-enclosed Pegasus E, which made its debut in 2021.

Effectively, it's a small, single-seat helicopter with automatic quick-fold rotor blades, with a bare-bones open-wheel vehicle chassis grafted on, using carbon fiber rods. It's not precisely clear exactly where the electric part of the hybrid drive system comes in, but the combustion power appears to come from a lightweight, buzzy "Pegasus 800" two-stroke, making around 160 horsepower.

Before we get any further, you have to see this frankly insane "only in China" urban flight test footage, shot in what appears to be a deserted industrial estate.

(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Travel; UFO's
KEYWORDS: automotive; aviation; flying
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VIDEO AT LINK........................
1 posted on 07/05/2024 7:50:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...

Aviation Ping!.....................


2 posted on 07/05/2024 7:51:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That is just a lawsuit or murder charge waiting to happen.


3 posted on 07/05/2024 7:53:20 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Red Badger

Oh boy this is going to be great. /s


4 posted on 07/05/2024 7:55:06 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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VIDEO AT LINK........................

Australian video filmed in China with German music?

5 posted on 07/05/2024 7:57:00 AM PDT by null and void (The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
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To: Jonty30

My first thought.


6 posted on 07/05/2024 7:57:35 AM PDT by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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Hmmmmmm ... ... ... I used to drive go-karts competitively, and "Handles like a go-kart" is seriously scary.
7 posted on 07/05/2024 7:57:37 AM PDT by budj (hre)
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To: Red Badger

Oh goodness, what a failure. Wait until some pedestrian gets their head lopped off.


8 posted on 07/05/2024 7:58:19 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: Red Badger

In part of the video, the tail rotor is turning counterclockwise (as seen from the left side), and later the tail rotor is turning clockwise (as seen from the left side).

Also the tail rotor seems to be turning at different speeds, somtimes very slowly, although this could be due to the effect of slow-motion video.


9 posted on 07/05/2024 7:59:22 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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From what I’ve seen, the best way forward for “flying cars” that I’ve seen so far are those cylindrical propellers. They look almost like a small paddlewheel, only the vanes are movable. The vehicles I’ve seen with them mount four of these propellers, one at each corner. There are no exposed blade ends whirling around, so it’s not going to take someone’s head off if they’re inattentive.

This thing looks fun, but it’s really just a helicopter that can drive itself to the helipad. The “car” aspect is an afterthought.


10 posted on 07/05/2024 7:59:58 AM PDT by Little Pig
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I want one, but one built by, say, Honda. Something that will stay in the air when you want it to.


11 posted on 07/05/2024 8:00:23 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (IThey intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: Carl Vehse

It’s the difference in frame speed vs eye speed.

It happens is Westerns when they show wagon, buggy and stage coach wheels seeming to turn backwards............


12 posted on 07/05/2024 8:01:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That appeared to be animation to me.


13 posted on 07/05/2024 8:01:50 AM PDT by CodeJockey (I'd like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.)
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Since there’s no traffic congestion anymore, this isn’t much needed.


14 posted on 07/05/2024 8:02:59 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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15 posted on 07/05/2024 8:03:25 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Carl Vehse

Stage coach wheels did the same trick in old Westerns.


16 posted on 07/05/2024 8:04:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Two words sink this idea:

Power. Lines.

17 posted on 07/05/2024 8:05:28 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Liability insurance might be a problem.............😏


18 posted on 07/05/2024 8:06:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: null and void

And watched in America...................


19 posted on 07/05/2024 8:08:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Easily solved by placing placards or stickers on the vehicle. It’s not my fault they didn’t see/read/observe the warning.


20 posted on 07/05/2024 8:08:56 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Bidens uncle's cannibals ate my support dingo.)
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