Be sort of a return to their roots. 
Posted on 03/28/2017 2:14:39 AM PDT by cba123
This strange vehicle might look like a flying saucer, but it's not for extraterrestrials.
Humans looking for a trip that's truly 'out of this world' can now fly in style with the I.F.O or 'Identified Flying Object', a proposed two-seater drone concept that looks like a UFO.
The I.F.O is powered by eight electric rotary engines that push the saucer to an estimated top speed of 120mph (190kph) and can lift it to the average helicopter altitude.
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Be sort of a return to their roots.
Gasp! :)
In the late 1970s, Popular Mechanics (iirc) covered a similar disc vehicle that was actually built and running. It had only 4 blades run by 4 wankel rotary engines, and supposedly reached a similar speed. But because it was not made of modern composites, it weighed enough to be used only as a hover craft, not a helicopter. As a kid I used to day dream about taking it out into the desert. :)
I could see it with a ball turret underneath...
Just put on some solar panels and you could fly all day-snicker.
If you hit those curves as 120mph there could be a spill.
Thank you!
‘I’m looking for investors to make it happen - the technology is on the market.’
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People with viable ideas can usually find investors without hyping the ideas in the media.
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