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DARPA Asks for a Flying Car, Gets a Dual-Rotor Road Warrior Turned Helo
Popular Science ^
| 7/13/2010
| Clay Dillow
Posted on 07/14/2010 10:37:51 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
One RPG, no more flying car. Heck, even small arms fire is likely to take this thing down. Non-starter.
To: UCANSEE2
Bio-fueled! It’s green, even.
(I found out that my 1-cylinder Yard-Man lawn mower runs great on straight ethanol the other day, when a can of if was handy and the gas was not.)
That contraption looks great for sport, but I’d hate to have to count on it for any kind of travel. Too easy to tangle the sail cords up in something, and how do you manage the sail once on terra firma?
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:02:11 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: sonofstrangelove
Popular Science magazine’s corporate charter requires a minimum of one future-flying-car article per year.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:46:51 AM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
("Obama" - Swahili for Fail)
To: KoRn
oH NO, not another damn thing with helodystropy. Use jet propulsion like the Harrier, much faster. Helicopters are so easy to knock down.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:55:52 AM PDT
by
TomasUSMC
( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
To: Dagnabitt
Then I am glad I posteed it
To: UCANSEE2
That’s just anti-gravity at work. The Duke of Hazzard had a real flying car.
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posted on
07/15/2010 3:11:18 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: UCANSEE2
Now that’s what the Corvair should have been!
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posted on
07/15/2010 3:18:45 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Just needs a flux capacitor and the universe is the limit.
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posted on
07/15/2010 4:18:43 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(George W. Bush was the last conservative democrat)
To: Doug Loss
Agreed, a huge waste of money.
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posted on
07/15/2010 8:30:26 AM PDT
by
cranked
To: UCANSEE2
It's not safe for soldiers but DARPA could mount an autonoumous robot sniper rifle on that contraption. 100 of these could fly into a city, set up roving robot snipers on every road while also flying slow overhead, and pin down the entire city. The sound from incoming enemy shots could be triangulated to direct bombing runs. A city could be taken over at the push of a button with no loss of American life.
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posted on
07/15/2010 8:58:09 AM PDT
by
Reeses
(Sowcialist: a voter bought with food stamps)
To: sonofstrangelove; Perdogg; Kevmo; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ...
Thanks sonofstrangelove.
Google
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posted on
07/18/2010 10:01:04 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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