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Toyota Files Flying-Car Patent
AvWeb ^ | September 16, 2015 | Mary Grady

Posted on 09/18/2015 7:01:45 AM PDT by BwanaNdege

It has been rumored off and on over the years that various big automakers are secretly at work on a flying car, and this week patent drawings emerged that show some ideas from Toyota’s drawing board. The patent application, which is dated Sept. 3, shows drawings of a car with four “stackable wings.” The wings, which will be short enough that they don’t protrude from the sides of the roof, can be deployed in various configurations for different phases of flight, from takeoff to cruise. The car also would have three rotors — two horizontal and one vertical.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: flyingcar; toyota
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To: BwanaNdege

Shouldn’t Mitsubishi be doing this. I think they’ve done aviation related work in the past.


21 posted on 09/18/2015 11:04:57 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: GMMC0987
Shouldn’t Mitsubishi be doing this. I think they’ve done aviation related work in the past.


22 posted on 09/18/2015 11:39:56 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
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To: BwanaNdege

Interesting.


23 posted on 09/18/2015 2:52:58 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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