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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 ...
Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913) died when his self-constructed airplane, [10] A Vlaicu II, failed during an attempt to cross the Carpathian Mountains. [11] Henry Smolinski (1933–1973) was killed during a test flight of the AVE Mizar, a flying car based on the Ford Pinto and the sole product of the company he founded. [12] [13]
The SF-2, designed in response to a competition called by the United States Bureau of Air Commerce seeking design and construction proposals for an airplane affordable to the masses, was designed and built by Ole Fahlin and his partner Swen Swanson using the engine of a 1935 Plymouth automobile and featuring design accents, both interior and exterior, borrowed from the same car.
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After flight testing by the Bureau, the Swanson-Fahlin plane design did not win the competition. [7] [24] [25] [26] The Plymocoupe was classified as a "flying automobile" because it utilised the engine of the 1935 Plymouth car. [24] The Plymocoupe design also used many components borrowed from the car including the dashboard and the indicators ...
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
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 ...
As for concerns about safety, Dukovny says that "it's safer than helicopters and airplanes and safer than your regular cars on the ground." The company says it plans to begin delivering the ...