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Dutch 'flying car' takes to the skies
http://www.physorg.com ^ | 04-03-2012 | Staff

Posted on 04/03/2012 11:22:06 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
"...there is a hitch -- it requires 165 metres of runway to take off..."

Might be able to shorten that up a bit with a good catapult :-)

21 posted on 04/03/2012 11:55:33 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Red Badger
Obama's environmentally friendly flying car...
22 posted on 04/03/2012 11:56:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Red Badger

I had to fly extensively in helicopters in my youth. I was young, stupid and ‘invincible’.

I’ll never again get on a helicopter unless it has wings.


23 posted on 04/03/2012 11:58:31 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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To: NCC-1701

"Cut me off, will you?"

24 posted on 04/03/2012 11:58:56 AM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Red Badger
The PAL-V:


25 posted on 04/03/2012 11:58:56 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: elcid1970
Autogyros have been around since the 1920’s yet have never progressed beyond the experimental stage except for a WWII Japanese prototype that was said to have been used as a submarine hunter

Actually I think Mitt had one patrolling the 2002 Olympics.

26 posted on 04/03/2012 12:01:52 PM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: Gaffer
Actually, the design is based off the Carver. Tricycle motorbike design with a tilting cab. About as street-worthy as your average high-end moped.

Rear wheels are powered via transmission just like any other trike set-up. PTO for the deployed rotorhead.

I've had my eye on this company since first catching wind of them a few years back.

I WANT MY FLYING CAR. I don't care who makes it.

27 posted on 04/03/2012 12:09:36 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"...there is a hitch -- it requires 165 metres of runway to take off..."

Alaska STOL Contest. See it now and believe it later.

28 posted on 04/03/2012 12:09:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Red Badger

Yikes, he’s not going to make a three point landing.


29 posted on 04/03/2012 12:50:04 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Gaffer

—Take cue from former three wheel ATV manufacturers why don’t you?—

Did you notice it leans in the curves?


30 posted on 04/03/2012 1:09:46 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

Guy in the cockpit(front seat?) looks pretty happy and confident. Bet he is listening to Rush in that headset.


31 posted on 04/03/2012 1:47:13 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Solyent Pink is Sheeple!!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Based on my anecdotal observations of the auto handling ability of the typical “driver”, There is no way I can support allowing them to fly. People who can barely handle two dimensions of motion should not be allowed to add a third.


32 posted on 04/03/2012 2:22:49 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

Agreed let folks who read the morning paper ,shave ,drink coffee from a regular mug while in rush hour traffic is just begging for blood gits & feathers to be scattered all over the place.


33 posted on 04/03/2012 2:37:32 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Red Badger

The military is looking at a flying humvee...............

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/darpas-flying-humvee-moving-prototype-phase


34 posted on 04/03/2012 2:41:43 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.)
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To: cuban leaf

Not worth arguing. 112 MPH? Won’t be on the roads.
Also impractical for the consumer


36 posted on 04/03/2012 3:58:05 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Red Badger

That must have been a wicked crosswind landing!


37 posted on 04/03/2012 5:01:10 PM PDT by Publius6961 (ItÂ’s easy to make phony promises you canÂ’t keep. - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: Publius6961

If you look at the windsock behind the craft you will notice that there was a pretty good crosswind.

Best regards,
SF


38 posted on 04/03/2012 5:49:41 PM PDT by SwampFoxOfVa
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To: achilles2000

As I flight instructor, I really can’t see the “flying car” evertaking off (pun intended)even if it were only 40K!

It’s difficult enough to teach some to drive a car let alone an airplane!(Just imagine the idiot who cuts you off in auto traffic flying about!)


39 posted on 04/04/2012 4:49:23 AM PDT by texson66 (In the words of Kent Brockman, "As for myself, I welcome our new commie overlords...")
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To: texson66

You’ve identified why the skies wouldn’t resemble a freeway at rush hour, even with inexpensive gyro-planes. If you go to the website or see one fly, however, it is amazing.


40 posted on 04/04/2012 8:07:32 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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