Flying cars! Really?

[razz]

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1916166211655
Thought that this video was somewhat to see so sharing. Wonder how many other versions of a flying car are flying around. Sounds like a 007 movie plot. What kind of a price tag would this vehicle rate!

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Prototype flying car completes first intercity flight
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Prototype flying car completes first intercity flight
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The AirCar, which can switch from a road vehicle to a plane in less than three minutes, successfully soared from Nitra airport in western Slovakia to Bratislava in 35 minutes.

[KayLR]

I've dreamed of it ever since first seeing The Jetsons!

[early morning]

"Doc" Jackson, the gentleman who taught both my parents to fly, designed, built, drove and flew a flying car back in 1956 - my birth year. (I was the reason my mother discontinued her aviation training....) I've heard about flying cars my entire life, it seems!
https://aaregistry.org/story/lewis-a-jackson-aviation-pioneer/

[Teacher Terry]

Early, thanks for sharing! I enjoyed reading the article.

[razz]

"Doc" Jackson, the gentleman who taught both my parents to fly, designed, built, drove and flew a flying car back in 1956 - my birth year. (I was the reason my mother discontinued her aviation training....) I've heard about flying cars my entire life, it seems!
https://aaregistry.org/story/lewis-a-jackson-aviation-pioneer/

So great to read about a futurist who was so practical and a gifted teacher as well.

[oldhat]

Never mind the flying car. I want one of these (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC4rg1Em8mo).

[razz]

I like the idea of a flying car better to visit family and simply to go for a drive as a form of escape. I have rarely needed a normally expected escape option. I just ran then.;)

[catherine]

I think I would opt for self-driving cars before flying ones. If we get to that point, I would also opt for a roof on my house that would withstand the flying cars dropping from the skies after mechanical failure or aerial fender-benders.

[happystuff]

I think I would opt for self-driving cars before flying ones. If we get to that point, I would also opt for a roof on my house that would withstand the flying cars dropping from the skies after mechanical failure or aerial fender-benders.

LOL. Makes me think of The World According to Garp.

[razz]

Aerial fender-benders made me laugh. I hope that I get to experience a self-driving car within the 20 years. My Prius V should last until then.

My flying car fantasy is based on an hour that I experienced of flying a small plane with an instructor after several sessions of classroom instruction put on by a local flying school. I was enchanted with the idea of flying but my budget with two teens coming into post-secondary schooling said no. It was one of my special joys over my lifetime.

[Lariliss]

Flying cars might not be very startling overall.

For me, propulsion spurring with this kind of bikes makes sense. For many years it has potential and the more we know and learn, the more potential sometimes is seen there.
Private flying car could be expensive like an air plane, but technology goes cheaper.
Hopefully, we won't need to implement helmets for pedestrians in order to save them from litter out of flying vehicles windows. And hopefully we will not go to another global albedo problems.

[ToomuchStuff]

Private flying car could be expensive like an air plane, but technology goes cheaper.


The maintenance will be much higher since it will be requiring FAA certifications and you must do a lot more like securing items with safety wire through all the nuts and bolts.