Flying car closes in on FAA OK

Boston Hearald ^ | 8/15 | Boston Hearald

[Fresh Wind]

They might get approval to fly the thing, but they’ll never get approval to drive it past the gate at the airport.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Youngest daughter tried to fly our old 94 Buick. Every time I see her, I ask if I can borrow her car. I want to see how far her Honda can fly.

My father-in-law, of blessed memory, used to buy Buicks and trade them well before most people would find it necessary.

He told the story of a young man who drove a VW, and whose father always razzing him about when was he going to get a real car. So he bought a Buick that my father-in-law had just traded in, and promptly took it for a joyride. Which ended in a high speed encounter with a bridge abutment . . .

[SuziQ]

Nah, the car will be WAY too expensive for 98% of drivers, so there won’t be that many in the air at any one time.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Oh, you'll coast to a stop, all right.

Guaranteed to always get you to the crash site.

[Durus]

How is that different from every other plane? Are you seriously suggesting “plane control” because terrorists have used them as bombs? What’s next, banning vests?

[ZX12R]

Hey look. Someone built a plane. *yawn*

[Vigilanteman]

We had one even earlier, back in 1968, I believe:

[Turbopilot]

You forgot your /s tag.

[taildragger]

2 things...

* I want to hear this airplane fly i.e. the air into the prop after all that fuselage etc drag...and how noise it makes might tell how efficient it is, this is tough for Pusher Props.
* And I want to see "Tuft" test in the aft fuselage area....

[gymbeau]

I agree, but will the Moller ever become more than vaporware?

Hope so! I’d love one!

cheers,
Jim

[af_vet_rr]

My God, 98% of the drivers out there (and that’s a low estimate) can’t handle 2 dimensions and now we are going to add a 3rd.

It’s going to be a slaughter

I watched my neighbor try to use his new electric lawnmower. He ran over the power cord within 5 minutes. If this man ever moved out to the country to make a go of farming, he'd be buying his neighbors new fences within a half hour of him getting on a tractor with anything attached to the back end.

How this man has a license to operate a vehicle on our roads confuses the hell out of me (and scares me to boot).

[af_vet_rr]

This would soon become a terrorists new best friend!! Just load it up with your favorite explosive material and fly it to it's destination and deliver the payload!!! ..... Yup, this invention is a great idea ..... NOT.

I like the sarcasm, but there are complete idiots out there that think of everything in terms of whether a terrorist could use it or not. They sh** their pants over thoughts of terrorism, even though a drunk American is liable to kill them long before a terrorist ever will.

These people would ban cell phones, ban private vehicles and force us to go through TSA screening for public transportation, ban guns and knives, and just let the government grow unchecked in order to "protect" them.

[R_Kangel]

..... DAMMIT!!!!! ........ Always forget something ....... so here it is < /sarcasm >