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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. Avro Vulcan XH558 - Wikipedia

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    A total of 136 Vulcans were produced at Woodford Aerodrome between 1956 and 1965, with the first entering operational service on 20 May 1957. [4] [5] XH558 was the first of the upgraded B2 version to enter service with the RAF, making its maiden flight from Woodford on 25 May 1960, and being delivered to No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, on 1 July 1960.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 98 Historical Inventions That Were Ahead Of Their Time - AOL

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    The concept of flying cars has been a longstanding vision of the future … and the first flying cars were invented in the 1950s. Perhaps the most famous flying car prototype was the Aerocar.

  6. 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 Detroit, Michigan, United States F-89 Scorpion: Design flaw 2 Wing broke off during flypast [2] 1952-09-06 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash: Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom de ...

  7. 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.

  8. SkyRider X2R - Wikipedia

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    A 1 ⁄ 4 th scale SkyRider body prototype. The SkyRider X2R was a project for flying car design developed by Macro Industries. The SkyRider incorporates tough, lightweight composites for reduced structural weight, it utilizes four-ducted fans with wings to generate lift and maintain flight and uses control systems and onboard computers to generate a travel path to reach a destination given by ...

  9. 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 ...