In Photos: Every Flying Car Currently Trying to Get off the Ground
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https://www.automobilemag.com/news/f...4143C3C7E29B99 --------------------https://st.automobilemag.com/uploads...nd%7C680%3A454 ----------------------------"Moller SkyCar Forty years in development, an estimated $150 million of investor money spent, and still not one of Canadian engineer Paul Moller’s prototypes has ever flown in free, untethered flight." -----------------------------------------https://st.automobilemag.com/uploads...nd%7C680%3A454 . |
In Photos: Every Flying Car Currently Trying to Get off the Ground
Flying cars have a habit of killing their inventors in a form of aeronautical Darwinism.
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I may have said this here years ago. My father who was in airline maintenance management most of his working life suggested that I stay out of experimental aircraft. I haven't even been in any aircraft in over 45 years. :D He also said that he new more than a couple commercial pilots with lotsa hours in big birds who, with their wives, died in light aircraft on a weekend due, probably, to unfamiliarity with the aircraft. Of course these weren't even experimental aircraft but they were in effect experimenting with them. Oh, I don't think I ever posted this; when my father was a an aircraft mechanic :scratch2: -"tech" now, I suppose :D, he replaced a generator in General Doolittle's plane when he flew in. I guess that makes me one degree of separation from General Doolittle! . |
In Photos: Every Flying Car Currently Trying to Get off the Ground
Very cool story about your father. He gave some very sage advice. I’m a private pilot, multi engine instrument rated, and flew a lot of complex aircraft when I was active. I flew a few experimental aircraft and the handling characteristics were sometimes very unusual to the point they could get you into trouble fast. No mas.
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GA accident rates have fallen recently but experimental aircraft account for 25% of the fatal crashes while comprising only 5% of the total GA flight hours - thus the very wise council of JMAC's father!
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