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US military developing flying car
The vehicle will be able to travel 280 miles by land and air, using vertical take-off and landing to increase access to difficult terrain

 

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1 posted on 12/01/2010 1:15:53 PM PST by Stoat
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2 posted on 12/01/2010 1:17:39 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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We were promised these when we were kids, dang it!

Hopefully the commercial version will be right behind the military one...


3 posted on 12/01/2010 1:19:20 PM PST by freedumb2003 (FYI: everything I post is IMHO -- YOU JACKWAGON! [no offense -- I just like that word])
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Eat your heart out Daddy Warbucks.


4 posted on 12/01/2010 1:19:55 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Or they could call Moller international and buy an off the shelf air car.

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5 posted on 12/01/2010 1:22:03 PM PST by woerm (student of history)
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is it carbon neutral and run on solar panels?

/sarc


7 posted on 12/01/2010 1:24:43 PM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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That flying Waring blender will kill more troops than the enemy.
8 posted on 12/01/2010 1:25:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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Don’t tell me...it solar powered, right?


9 posted on 12/01/2010 1:25:54 PM PST by FrankR (Don't let the bastards wear you down!)
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10 posted on 12/01/2010 1:26:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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How is the weight of an up-armored humvee type vehicle going to balance with being light enough to fly? This thing would need a huge honking power plant I would think.

Seems like a crappy compromise in the making.


11 posted on 12/01/2010 1:26:30 PM PST by Sax
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My own experiments with ‘flying cars’ during my misspent youth ended in abject failure an high insurance rates...


13 posted on 12/01/2010 1:27:48 PM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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My own experiments with ‘flying cars’ during my misspent youth ended in abject failure and high insurance rates...


14 posted on 12/01/2010 1:27:55 PM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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Dude... you can buy one in Hammacher-Schlemmer:

Flying Car $350,000


16 posted on 12/01/2010 1:31:41 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Stoat; Revolting cat!

“Am I cleared to drive?”


18 posted on 12/01/2010 1:32:31 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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So much for high speed rail. Paging Willie Green...


20 posted on 12/01/2010 1:34:16 PM PST by wolfman23601
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24 posted on 12/01/2010 1:38:06 PM PST by smokingfrog ( ><{{{{{(0>)
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Anything can fly if a big enough engine is put on it.


28 posted on 12/01/2010 1:40:59 PM PST by flying_bullet (El Conservo tribe member)
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DOPEY.... On the ground it will have all the protection afforded by Balsa wood and glue. IEDs no bigger than cherry
bombs will disable it.

Whats the mission it will satisfy? Fly until it’s its hit, that what.

Armament will be provided by roll down windows that the doomed crew can shoot their M9s out of.


29 posted on 12/01/2010 1:41:46 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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$ 80 million to develop a plane? Hasn’t the technology existed for decades already?


31 posted on 12/01/2010 1:44:35 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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An aeroplane-motor car made in France by René Tampier 1921, October 23rd

Been done already, just didn't catch on.

32 posted on 12/01/2010 1:44:59 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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35 posted on 12/01/2010 1:52:38 PM PST by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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