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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western rivers: An economic and technological history (1949). Kirkland, Edward Chase. Men, cities and transportation: a study in New England history, 1820-1900 (2 vol Harvard UP, 1948). Lewis, Tom. Divided highways: Building the interstate highways, transforming American life (Cornell UP, 2013)
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.
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
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 ...
The history of aviation spans over two millennia, from the earliest innovations like kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight in powered, heavier-than-air jet aircraft. Kite flying in China, dating back several hundred years BC, is considered the earliest example of man-made flight. [ 1 ]