DARPA Asks for a Flying Car, Gets a Dual-Rotor Road Warrior Turned Helo

Popular Science ^ | 7/13/2010 | Clay Dillow

[Doug Loss]

One RPG, no more flying car. Heck, even small arms fire is likely to take this thing down. Non-starter.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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?

[Dagnabitt]

Popular Science magazine’s corporate charter requires a minimum of one future-flying-car article per year.

[TomasUSMC]

oH NO, not another damn thing with helodystropy. Use jet propulsion like the Harrier, much faster. Helicopters are so easy to knock down.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Then I am glad I posteed it

[count-your-change]

That’s just anti-gravity at work. The Duke of Hazzard had a real flying car.

[Fresh Wind]

Now that’s what the Corvair should have been!

[VRW Conspirator]

Just needs a flux capacitor and the universe is the limit.

[cranked]

Agreed, a huge waste of money.

[Reeses]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sonofstrangelove.

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