New toad for the Aviation set

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09-20-2006, 08:11 AM

Bill N.Y.

New toad for the Aviation set

There is a new flying car for those who want it all!

http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/flying-cars/20060914090009990001

The future is here.

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09-20-2006, 11:58 AM

Philipp2

Or, there is this one:
http://www.moller.com/skycar/m400/

I can't imagine FAA and the automotive safety officials all approving one design. Tough requirements, but we have been waiting for 50 years for this to happen.

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09-20-2006, 12:50 PM

Lee

Actually Bill, I took delivery of one today - traded in my Segway for it. The wife was so excited, she took a video clip of me coming home from work....It's at:

http://www.terrafugia.com/landing.html

09-20-2006, 02:24 PM

Bill N.Y.

quote:
Originally posted by Philipp2:
I can't imagine FAA and the automotive safety officials all approving one design.

I hope they save the video of them crashing these into walls, other cars and such from the Federal Highway Safety crash tests.

Maybe with such low numbers there considered experimental and might not need all of that.

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09-21-2006, 01:04 AM

Shadow man

Just saw something a week or so ago about a gal that has one of the original aerocars and thinks she can get $3.5 million for it....she must have seen the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction on tv last winter,