Video — Flying Car First Flight

By Thursday March 19, 2009

Not a flying car, but a roadable aircraft, the Terrafugia Transition took flight for the first time March 5, 2009.



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  1. bobbo.html# says:
    3/19/2009 at 12:55 pm

    This is very cool. One man tilt aircraft. There is another craft out there that is like a ladder with an engine/fan on the top of it. You strap it on and you got vertical lift, and so forth in a 200 pound personal device. Can’t find it right now.

    Dvorak’s Cage Match

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  2. Shubee says:
    3/19/2009 at 2:11 pm

    Recently the auto industry said that flying cars were impossible. See The Onion: Mean Automakers Dash Hope For Flying Cars. http://youtube.com/watch?v=2hGjl3zcJMk

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  3. bobbo says:
    3/19/2009 at 2:24 pm

    Heres what I was thinking of:

    http://defensetech.org/archives/002980.html

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  4. cubsfanatic86 says:
    3/19/2009 at 9:35 pm

    Saw this up close in Oshkosh last year, it was really ugly.

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  5. deowll says:
    3/19/2009 at 10:48 pm

    The idea of folding wings so it can use very little hanger space seems like a winner however that idea has been around for a long time.

    The ability to use a short runway would seem like a must for a plane like this.

    How useful the ability to run short distances on the highway actually is depends on what the local legal begals think of your actually doing it.

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