This Is The World's First Practical Flying Car

Business Insider ^ | 06/10/2013 | Kyle Russell

[COBOL2Java]

Needs some whiskers...

[KittenClaws]

Back in the day, we called these “airplanes”.

[massgopguy]

HA! Wheels. How 18th century. Why, it doesn’t even come with a pet monkey in a space suit.

[Hulka]

Also high lift at slow speeds. . .a plus for short takeoffs and landings.

[catnipman]

Totally bogus claim. Here's the REAL world's first practical flying car:

[cuban leaf]

Lousy car and lousy plane. That’s the problem.

[Drawsing]

The demo video shows the propellors folding up for “cruising speed”. I guess it becomes a jet aircraft at that point.

[catnipman]

This one shows promise:

[central_va]

The cruise speed is probable not much higher than the speed you can drive on interstates. The only advantage is you can fly over congestion...

[catfish1957]

Where did you catch me in that uncomprimising position?

[thackney]

They are claiming 200 mph with a range of 500 miles.

[treetopsandroofs]

Noodleplaning?

[central_va]

I can remember flying a Cessna 150 at a IAS of 105 knots against a head wind and I was barely keeping up with the cars on the interstate. Kind of weird....

[central_va]

Unless that is a 2000 hp engine behind that fan no plane with stubby wings like that is going over 100 knots. Maybe in a power dive it’ll go 200 knots....

[qam1]

There will never be a practical flying car.

The problem is 98% of the people can’t handle 2 dimensions, adding a 3rd will be a blood bath.

The sad part is if flying cars ever do become popular, in the left lane of the top lane of 50 vertical lanes there will still be some @$$¶º|£ driving slowly and blocking the fast traffic behind them.

[thackney]

Are you looking at the old version or the new design? Both pictures were posted in this thread.

[catfish1957]

Excellent.....

[thackney]

They old one, the Transition, does have top speed 100 knots

http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft/transitionR

[catfish1957]

Maybe in a power dive it’ll go 200 knots....

Maybe they are adding a hurricane tail wind.

[petercooper]

Saw one of those idiots the other day- left lane doing 50 with a bumper sticker- “Get off my ass, I’m saving gas”. Fine, want to be a jackass and go under the speed limit- do it in the right lane.