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"Flying Car" drives me crazy. The requirements of flight and road travel are enormously exclusive. I'm super excited about the new possibilities personal, loca
by imglorp 7y ago
"Flying Car" drives me crazy. The requirements of flight and road travel are enormously exclusive.
I'm super excited about the new possibilities personal, local flight enabled by all the developing tech like batteries, multi-rotors, controllers, peer-to-peer and ADS-B. That type of craft will go a long way to diminishing the needs for roads and parking lots.
- burfog 7y agoThose requirements are not enormously exclusive. It's only bad when you also require low cost and minimal training. (avoiding: turbine, complex aircraft, high stall speed, high performance, pressurized, etc.) Consider a lifting body like the Martin X-24A. It's a decent car shape that has been tested to 1036 MPH (1667 km/h, Mach 1.6). Add the engine and lift fan system used in the F-35B VTOL aircraft, and you have more than enough power for high-speed flight. You won't even need a runway.