Jetson-Like Flying Car in Production-(massive carbon flyprint)

abc ^ | 7/20/08 | abc

[Flavius]

A flying car resembling what the Jetsons drove could show up soon at a dealership near you.

[BerryDingle]

That is barely enough for one average American male.

ruh row!

[TheCipher]

I could have sworn I saw that photo in a Popular Science issue back in the late 70’s

[UCANSEE2]

[TXnMA]

Just wait until one of these comes down in a crowd — and scatters pedestrian pieces over a couple of square blocks...

[Prokopton]

Just wait until one of these comes down in a crowd — and scatters pedestrian pieces over a couple of square blocks...

I designed in a ballistic recovery parachute. Moller's design is really more of a ground effect vehicle rather than a true aircraft and at ten feet altitude I can't imagine it flying over anything except flat ground.

[Beowulf9]

What happens if you run out of fuel?

[the anti-liberal]

I imagine the two small turbines rotate to provide forward/reverse thrust?

[Flavius]

Then change happens.

[seoul62]

I want to see the big headed martians with their ray guns from the movie: Mars Attacks!!!!!! I loved and laughed when they were done in by a Slim Whitman song, hee-hee!!!!!!/Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Beowulf9]

Ruh row Rorge!

[valkyry1]

In honor of King Prout and all of his intellectually superior cohorts at their goofball site /sarc>

King, there was so much wrong with your ideas (hover tank) that we could just throw away the urinals.

[mamelukesabre]

Nah

The whole craft rotates vertical to go forward.

Maybe.

[the anti-liberal]

And the cockpit rotates too? Does it come with a “motion sickness” bag?

[MindBender26]

I think you are correct! It’s been around forever

[Impy]

250 pound max? That won't do.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I prefer the “Back to the Future” car (actually time machine), the DeLorean, which used all garbage for fuel. LOL!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

He worked for spacely sprockets.I think.

[TigersEye]

Now, who wants this eight-engine flying vegematic passing ten feet over his head?

Now multiply that by several thousand and put your average drivers in the pilot's seat. No lanes, lines or anything. Imagine the fun. Imagine the insurance rates.

[UCANSEE2]

That’s what it looks like to me.

There is a ‘split’ on the body between the nacelles and the rest.

[UCANSEE2]

I don’t know why ABC released this article at this time.

The photo in the article is the design Moller built in 1974.

The military and Nasa had built one just like it.

Moller has a new release of the MX400, which is much more flight-worthy, and isn’t even in these pictures.