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  2. Terrafugia TF-X - Wikipedia

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    It will be able to fit in a single car garage. Powered by two plug-in hybrid 600-horsepower electric motors and a 300-horsepower fuel engine, the TF-X is planned to have a flight range of 500 miles (805 km) with a cruising flight speed of 200 mph (322 km/h) without the need to refuel or recharge. [1] Road speed is currently unknown. [3]

  3. Terrafugia Transition - Wikipedia

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    The Terrafugia Transition is a light sport, roadable airplane under development by Terrafugia since 2006. [3]The Rotax 912ULS [4] piston engine powered, carbon-fiber vehicle is planned to have a flight range of 425 nmi (489 mi; 787 km) using either automotive premium grade unleaded gasoline or 100LL avgas and a cruising flight speed of 93 kn (107 mph; 172 km/h).

  4. List of pusher aircraft by configuration and date - Wikipedia

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    Curtiss HS 1917 patrol flying boat, about 1,178 built; Grigorovich M-15 1917 patrol flying boat, unk no. built; Macchi M.5 1917, flying boat fighter, 244 built; Norman Thompson N.T.2B 1917 flying boat trainer, 100+ built; Tellier T.3 and Tc.6 1917 patrol flying boat, about 155 built; Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 1918 U-boat flying boat, 3 built

  5. Lawnchair Larry flight - Wikipedia

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    Cluster ballooning was inspired by Larry Walters's experience, although his was not the first. [1]On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. [2]

  6. Aerocar - Wikipedia

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    Ruth Wikander was an active member of the 99's, the International Organization of Women Pilots. In 1962 Ruth Wikander drove the Aerocar as an automobile while trailering the wings in the annual Portland Rose Festival parade. The Aerocar was an integral part of KISN Radio [15] along with photos of famous rock musicians and KISN DJ's of the times.

  7. Klein Vision AirCar - Wikipedia

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    Slovak designer Professor Štefan Klein began working on flying cars in the late 1980s. Having developed the AeroMobil, he left the company to develop a new idea as the AirCar, and set up Klein Vision with colleague Anton Zajac. [2] [3] The main fuselage of the AirCar doubles as a two-seat road car with four large road wheels.

  8. Marston Mat - Wikipedia

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    RAF aircrew with one of their Bristol Beaufighters on a PSP airstrip at Biferno, Italy, August 1944. Marston Mat, more properly called pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP), is standardized, perforated steel matting material developed by the United States at the Waterways Experiment Station shortly before World War II, primarily for the rapid construction of temporary runways and ...

  9. Convair Model 118 - Wikipedia

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    Following the end of the war, Hall and Tommy Thompson designed and developed the Convair Model 116 Flying Car, featured in Popular Mechanics magazine in 1946, [2] which consisted of a two-seat car body, powered by a rear-mounted 26 hp (19 kW) engine, with detachable monoplane wings and tail, fitted with their own tractor configuration 90 hp (67 ...