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