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Our long lived dream of flying cars may finally come true. "A flying car that's rugged enough for hardcore off-road driving, able to survive small-arms fire and can quickly take off and land is potentially just a few years shy of reality," says John Roach. The Lockheed Martin and DARPA have gone into the prototype testing for flying Humvees for the military. Prototype presentation is expected by the end of fiscal 2012. If one of the prototypes is successful then they could be being used by 2015. What does this mean for flying cars for personal use? It is already clear that personal vehicles that take off and land at airports that are like small planes that can drive on roads are possible, but what DARPA wants is an off-road drivable vehicle that can hold four soldiers and their gear and be able to take of vertically like a helicopter. They also want it to be easy enough for a typical soldier to be able to fly them and fly 250 miles on one tank of gas. This means if we convert the Humvee part to car normal people will have easy to be flown cars that can take off from your house without airports or runways.
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Jacob Saslavsky
Nice post can't wait for flying cars.(Kicker14)
ReplyDeleteI think they already have some planes that can fly and can fold into cars. One of these is called the Terrafugia Transition. It can fly and is legal to drive on state roads. You might be interested.
ReplyDelete-- Ben Fagelman
This is a good example of technology growing.
ReplyDelete-Gustavo