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A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles which drive as motorcycles when on the road. The term "flying car" is also sometimes used to include hovercars and/or VTOL personal air vehicles. Many prototypes have been built since the ...
Aerocar International's Aerocar (often called the Taylor Aerocar) is an American roadable aircraft designed and built by Moulton Taylor in Longview, Washington in 1949. Although six examples were made, it never entered large-scale production. It is considered one of the first practical flying cars.
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 ...
It’s a mode of transportation that’s captured our imagination for years — the flying car. Janet Bednarek is an aviation historian who says our collective interest in a flying car elevates ...
They even have a flying car showroom in Munich where you can buy your own gyroplane/car combination. (It'll cost you about $550,000.) Bottom line: Flying cars remain rare. But change is on the ...
Taylor Aerocar displayed at the EAA Aviation Museum. Taylor was born in Portland, Oregon and studied engineering at the University of Washington.After graduation, he was accepted into the United States Navy as a Naval Aviator during World War II, and spent much of the war working on the Navy's Gorgon missile program, for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit medal.
Since "The Jetsons" first aired in the early 1960s, flying cars have been a staple of science fiction, appearing in films like "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Star Wars," and "Back To The Future." But now
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year. If a model did not have continuous production, it is listed again on the model year production resumed. Concept cars and submodels are not listed unless they are themselves ...