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Handles like a go-kart, flies like a heli: Flying car coming to the USA
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| July 5, 2024
| Loz Blain
Posted on 07/05/2024 7:50:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
If it is light enough to fly it has =zero= crash safety.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:09:29 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Red Badger
Those rotor blades make it a unsafe at any time.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:09:34 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: Red Badger
Nothing new. Both Popular Science and Popular Mechanics have articles about these going back sixty years ago.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:10:21 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
To: Red Badger
Two-stroke? Never pass emissions.
To: budj
Used to have a FIAT X1/9.
That really drove like a go-kart!..................
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:12:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
So, if stuck in traffic, you can fly over the road jam? Sounds tempting, but if there’s another carcopter with the same idea, near you, there will be an even worse traffic jam from the collision.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:13:15 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
To: Red Badger
Since these are disposable, no insurance is needed. No license. No tags. No insurance. Mine will be sprayed with a mirror finish to camouflage in the blue skies or the trees. Can’t catch me if you can’t see me.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:13:17 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Bidens uncle's cannibals ate my support dingo.)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
I don’t think they apply to aviation, do they?
They called this a hybrid, so the ground part must be electric..............
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:14:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Maybe. I’d guess that if the thing is to be driven on roads, it’ll have to be registered as a vehicle, and that means emissions testing in a lot of places.
If it’s not to be driven on roads, though, it’s not really a “flying car” IMO.
To: Red Badger
Effectively, it's a small, single-seat helicopter with automatic quick-fold rotor blades Better be REAL quick-folding if I'm in the car in the adjacent lane when this comes in for a landing. Good grief.
To: Jonty30
Yeah, thinking they should have called it Icarus instead of Pegasus.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:24:06 AM PDT
by
jagusafr
( )
To: Red Badger
NO WAY I would drive something with wheels that small on the highway. (And I drive an Ariel Atom on the highway)
To: Red Badger
One wonders how they intend to train and qualify pilots.
BTW, the video looks like CGI.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:35:49 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: Red Badger
It will be hell on pedestrains.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:37:05 AM PDT
by
Doulos1
(Bitter Clinger Forever!)
To: Red Badger
The fun will begin when one of these things enters Class B airspace over LAX.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:39:36 AM PDT
by
Signalman
(I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
To: Signalman
Or DC.......................
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:41:50 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
If any single part of it comes from China, I wouldn’t trust it.
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:52:31 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: Red Badger
Upward opening doors on a helicopter?
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
07/05/2024 8:55:50 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
To: Red Badger
Decapitation by helicopter blade, the new road hazard.
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posted on
07/05/2024 9:04:22 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Red Badger
Can’t wait for the traffic warning signs: “Watch for burning falling wreckage.”
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posted on
07/05/2024 9:05:20 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(They're lying.)
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