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  2. Aerocar - Wikipedia

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    N101D (1954) is owned by Greg Herrick's Yellowstone Aviation Inc. [2] [5] [6] It is maintained in flying condition and is on display at the Golden Wings Flying Museum located on the south west side of the Anoka County-Blaine Airport in Minneapolis. This aircraft is featured flying overhead on the cover on the book "A Drive In the Clouds" by ...

  3. List of aircraft structural failures - Wikipedia

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    Fire caused by failure of pilots to stop fuel transfer and design flaw. Fire eventually lead to an in-flight breakup. 1952-08-30 1952 F-89 airshow crash USA: Detroit: F-89 Scorpion: Design flaw 2 Wing broke off during flypast [2] 1952-09-06 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash: UK: Farnborough, Hampshire: de Havilland DH.110: Design flaw 31 ...

  4. Flying car - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar - Wikipedia

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    The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Flying cars are no longer 'science fiction'

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    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

  8. US skies open up as 2nd flying car secures FAA stamp of ... - AOL

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    You can get your hands on a H1 flying car starting from $135,000 to $150,000, ... US skies open up as 2nd flying car secures FAA stamp of approval. Scripps News Staff. December 5, 2023 at 3:25 PM ...

  9. Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar - Wikipedia

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    The Air Force C-119 and Navy R4Q was initially a redesign of the earlier C-82 Packet, built between 1945 and 1948. The Packet had provided limited service to the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and Military Air Transport Service before its design was found to have several serious problems. Though it continued in service until replaced, all of ...