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Flying car completes test flight between airports
bbc.com ^ | 6/29/2021 | Zoe Kleinman

Posted on 06/29/2021 7:39:43 PM PDT by bitt

A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia. The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, is equipped with a BMW engine and runs on regular petrol-pump fuel. Its creator, Prof Stefan Klein, said it could fly about 1,000km (600 miles), at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m), and had clocked up 40 hours in the air so far. It takes two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft.

'Very pleasant' The narrow wings fold down along the sides of the car. Prof Klein drove it straight off the runway and into town upon arrival, watched by invited reporters. He described the experience, early on Monday morning, as "normal" and "very pleasant". In the air, the vehicle reached a cruising speed of 170km/h. It can carry two people, with a combined weight limit of 200kg (31 stone). But unlike drone-taxi prototypes, it cannot take off and land vertically and requires a runway.

There are high expectations for the nascent market in flying cars, which have long been heralded in popular culture as a visionary landmark of the future.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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1 posted on 06/29/2021 7:39:43 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

see pictures


2 posted on 06/29/2021 7:40:04 PM PDT by bitt ( A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.)
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To: bitt

Isn’t a helicopter a flying car already?

You can drive it down the road, or fly it.

Same with an airplane actually.


3 posted on 06/29/2021 7:42:57 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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It can carry two people, with a combined weight limit of 200kg (31 stone).

That would be only one American.

4 posted on 06/29/2021 7:44:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: bitt
Didn't Roger Moore fly/drive one of those in a James Bond movie like, forty-odd years ago? That is so 70's.......
5 posted on 06/29/2021 7:44:52 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Remember, all the world’s a barstool.)
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To: Persevero

Those aren’t flying cars. Those are driving aircraft.


6 posted on 06/29/2021 7:44:57 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: bitt
"It takes two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft."

It took me about that long to get the roof up on my '66 MGB.

7 posted on 06/29/2021 7:45:29 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: bitt

Looks better than the flying Pintos of yore.


8 posted on 06/29/2021 7:56:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Jeff Chandler

200 kg = 440.9 lbs, OR
31 st = 434 lbs therefor
235 lbs + 128 lbs = 363 lbs so the Mrs. and could make a flight

Wait, you say it costs what??????
Maybe I’ll wait for something cheaper...


9 posted on 06/29/2021 7:57:38 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Trump Voter (Still a Deplorable, Clinger, Christian Infidel, American & vast right-wing conspirator))
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To: Jeff Chandler

So you buy a flying car. Where can you “fly” it without lanes, speed limits, passenger limits, tail light codes, decals authorizing HOV authorization? Have fun, this is a Deep State ready to pounce. It will never happen, as long as there are highways.


10 posted on 06/29/2021 7:59:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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11 posted on 06/29/2021 8:01:20 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: bitt
"The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, is equipped with a BMW engine and runs on regular petrol-pump fuel."

But, but, climate change, petroleum canceled.

Then what??

12 posted on 06/29/2021 8:03:19 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: SamAdams76

I rest my case and my wife’s Pinto has long ago been recycled so I’m open to some improvements in the tech...


13 posted on 06/29/2021 8:03:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: bitt
airport to airport? are you kidding me? no way!!! they PROMISED me flying cars for decades commuting home to work and that's the best they can do??? what a gyp!!!i guess the Jetsons must be complete fiction then, right?


14 posted on 06/29/2021 8:04:17 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: bitt
"between international airports in...

FYI history:

DFW Internaltional Airport (Texas y'all) was not always such.

It was originally DFW Airport when it opened.

About 1985, the airport in Eastland (Texas y'all) declared themselves as a International Airport and put signage out on IH-20 to note such as the only International Airport for that region of Texas.

Law suite...then Eastland dropped the International designation and thus forward, DFW Airport became DFW International Airport.

*Now,you know.

15 posted on 06/29/2021 8:04:21 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.There )
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To: chief lee runamok

“Then what??”

Massive Chinese Batteries.


16 posted on 06/29/2021 8:04:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: bitt

I’ll wait forthe George Jetson model that folds up into a briefcase.


17 posted on 06/29/2021 8:05:46 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: catnipman

Once in awhile I have “flying dreams,” like Superman. Except I have to go to an airport to take off.


18 posted on 06/29/2021 8:06:37 PM PDT by Cboldt
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It can carry two people, with a combined weight limit of 200kg (31 stone) …
31 stone = 434 lbs. 200 kg ≈ 441 lbs.
19 posted on 06/29/2021 8:07:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Cboldt

“Once in awhile I have “flying dreams,” like Superman. Except I have to go to an airport to take off.”

my favorite dreams: flying dreams, but with me, the issue is continuous dodging high tension power lines ... obvious symbolism i suppose given that i’m a peasant ...


20 posted on 06/29/2021 8:15:36 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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