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	Flying car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flying car was a vision of transportation in the 21st century, and a common feature of science fiction futures.
		Historically, early flying car prototypes were primarily of the modular style, mainly due to the simplicity of construction.
		Flying cars and other wingless floating vehicles are common in many (if not most) science fiction movies and series that depict a technologically advanced future, including Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Star Trek, and The Matrix.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flying_car (1382 words)

	Flying Car Specifications
		However, a flying car can be kept in one's garage and the car alone can be used significantly more often than the 100 hours per year flown by the average pilot using a traditional aircraft only.
		However, with a flying car the pilot can drive to the airport, take off, fly up to the edge of a weather system, land, drive to the other side of it, continue flight to his destination airport, and then drive the car portion to his final destination.
		However, the pilot of a flying car is able to avoid the overly long commute from an airline airport to a final destination, which frequently has a small airport of its own.
	www.volanteaircraft.com /volante.htm (261 words)

	Flying car: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The flying car was a vision of transportation in the 21st century 21st century quick summary:
		The moller skycar is a theorized personal vtol (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft: a "flying car" -- called a "volantor" by its inventor paul moller,...
		The Flying Car was humorous skit written in 2002 for the Tonight Show by Kevin Smith[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fl/flying_car.htm (1803 words)

	Baby you can fly my car - The Boston Globe
		If Dietrich and his teammates do succeed in their bid to create, manufacture, and mass-market a flying automobile, it will make a reality of a concept that has long defeated the best efforts of other inventors, even as it has continued to tickle the public's imagination.
		Flying cars have been a staple of pop-culture fantasy, from the book and movie versions of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" to the 1960s TV cartoon ''The Jetsons" to films that range from larky (''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang") to thrilling (''The Man With the Golden Gun") to dystopian (''Blade Runner").
		Yet even though the FAA has already certified a couple of flying cars, and even though FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said yesterday that ''the concept of airplanes as personal transportation" is on the agency's radar, flying cars have yet to catch on as an everyday vehicle.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/articles/2006/02/15/baby_you_can_fly_my_car (1897 words)

	The Speculist: That Flying Car Problem
		Flying cars would be a huge step backwards in energy consumption and pollution.
		Given that most flying car designs and all airplanes have to move to stay aloft, a traffic jam would be very, very bad.
		Flying taxies and limos perhaps, where the driver is a full time pro, surrounded by full time pros, but I doubt you'll see flying cars without solving the energy problem and making the car artificially intelligent.
	www.blog.speculist.com /archives/000290.html (1859 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Flying Cars Will Work"
		Cars, which became affordable for the general population, have allowed us to move farther away from cities, and planes have cut travel time to faraway destinations considerably.
		You've probably heard promises about flying cars before, and the technology to make them safe and easy to fly may finally be here.
		In this article, we will take a look back at some of the attempts to build a flying car, and examine some of the flying vehicles that you may be able to park in your garage in the next decade!
	travel.howstuffworks.com /flying-car.htm (294 words)

	Flying Car Blog
		The concept of flying cars has been around since the Jetsons, of course: ideally, we'll be able to take off vertically, cruise at 200+ miles per hour, and be safe no matter what the weather is like.
		The flying car Hall mentioned, by the way, would have "a hundred quadrillion parts" (that's 100,000,000,000,000,000 parts), and building it would require a database "that's thousands of millions of times larger than any in the world today." (If you're skeptical about whether that's the right way to go, I suspect you're not alone.
		A flying car is suddenly less of a pipe dream or the stuff of cartoons.
	www.nicheblogs.net /flying-car (1612 words)

	Flying Car from Volante Aircraft
		It is a "take all parts with you on the road" flying car, consisting of a flight section which is removable from the car component, and which is transportable by the car in trailer fashion.
		The flying car's conversion time goal, either way, is under five minutes for one person and that goal appears to be easily attainable.
		The flying car's driving components are currently receiving durability testing in a ground vehicle that is driven daily, while the flight portion is being tested in California's Mojave Desert.
	www.volanteaircraft.com (259 words)

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		A flight module is attached to this car which is certified by the FAA as an aircraft.
		The car’s steering wheel is always connected to the steer the front wheels and the airplane’s rudder.
		For any flying car design to be marketable, it must appeal to a motorist and require skills not much more complicated than driving.
	www.aerocar.com (1350 words)

	Flying car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As the successive decades since failed to deliver such a vehicle, the flying car became somewhat of a totem of the failure of futurism to accurately predict the future development of society and was regularly used to poke fun at futurists.
		Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air: primarily used to refer to objects that seem to be at least of small familiar aircraft size, or, usually at a minimum, at least significantly larger than a small bird.
		A flying car is an automobile that can legally travel on a road and can take off, fly,...
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Flying_car.html (1620 words)

	SaCreD MaTriX - Rajesh Rana: Project - Flying Car
		Someone sent an interesting Google Earth placemark to The Register which shows a satellite photo of what appears to be a flying car near a parking lot in near Perth, Australia.
		I'd think the car would have slammed into the trees shortly (within a second or two) after the photo was snapped.
		Could be a tent, car on a pole, flying car or any number of things, but two cars: I don't see why people can be so sure as to rule out all other possibilities.
	rajeshrana.blogspot.com /2006/02/project-flying-car.html (1031 words)

	Flying car? Not really (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This story shows you the location of the supposed flying car and explains what you are really seeing.
		The reason there are no reflections on the "shadow" fl car is that it is parked at a different angle.
		I'm mor inclined to beleive it's just a single white car, and the displaced shadow giving it the illusion of flying is the result of some photographic anomaly.
	digg.com /science/Flying_car_Not_really (414 words)

	Future flying cars - ,Tild ~: <br>So, where's my flying car?,Dr Patrick Dixon, Futurist - 8.5 million ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Though flying saucers have been a troop transport, a flying ambulance and (all together now) a flying car.
		Jetson's Flying Car Early in the 20th century it was pretty much assumed that future have not come about, the concept of sleek flying cars sliding
		Not a single space colony exists, flying cars are still something of a pipe dream, At any rate, the future isn't what it was supposed to be.
	newsquicklook.com /?q=future-flying-cars (541 words)

	Is a flying car in your future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ever since the Wrights people have been waiting for the personal flying machine they can keep in their garage, but no aerial Henry Ford has managed to come up with the flying Model T. Although more than 30 patents have been filed on various concept vehicles, not a single one has gone into mass production.
		They are overpowered for road vehicles and underpowered as aircraft, and while a vehicle with minor damage sustained in the supermarket car park or with an engine that is playing up unpredictably may be perfectly acceptable for everyday road use, higher standards are required once the ground is left behind.
		It is not really a flying car, rather a completely new type of aircraft - but it looks like a car, could be kept in a suburban garage and is designed as personal transport.
	seekers.100megs6.com /FlyingCars.htm (1225 words)

	Flying Cars
		In 1918 the first patent for a flying car was issued to a Mr.
		Because flying cars and roadable aircraft seem to be more of a dream than a reality, many people believe that these things do not exist.
		Flying Cars was aired on the Jay Leno show.
	www.roadabletimes.com (224 words)

	Flying car captured on Google Earth
		Flying car or not, the driver's an idiot or drunk because he's headed right for that group of trees.
		It could quite possibly be a sign, or a fl car parked beside it, looking like a shadow with the low resolution unable to make the details very clear.
		Obviously a car with a fl cover on it next to a white car.
	digg.com /technology/Flying_car_captured_on_Google_Earth (1381 words)

	Welcome To The Retro Future
		Sensing the time was right for a flying car, they poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into developing a prototype built by aerodynamic engineer Theodore P. Hall.
		Secondly, flying cars, traditionally, have suffered from an engineering problem: as cars they are overpowered, as planes they are underpowered.
		No, sadly, you will not be able to jump into a flying car for a quick trip to the 7-11 in the year 2000.
	www.retrofuture.com /flyingcar.html (689 words)

	The Flying Car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flying Car is a six-minute 2002 short film written and directed by Kevin Smith.
		While stuck in a traffic jam, the two have another philosophical, pop-culture-laden conversation — this one sparked when Randal asks Dante what he would hypothetically sacrifice in exchange for marketing rights to a flying car.
		The short film was the first commissioned for The Tonight Show and premiered there on February 27, 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Flying_Car (161 words)

	S.P.A.D. Flying Race Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I just finished building a Flying Race Car similar to the PCP Flying Porsche, only it is a.46 size with a few modifications that ChrisSpad helped me come up with (thicker airfoil, smaller profile, triple scored wing LE, shorter wing, and shorter fuse).
		Flying an experimental maiden with a crowd is a PITA
		As you fly the car some more, I would like to see comments from you on how the 2MM is holding up.
	www.rcuniverse.com /forum/S%P%A%D%_Flying_Race_Car/m_2898147/tm.htm (2358 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Flying car ready for take-off
		A family car that flies is about to begin test flights in the United States.
		Earlier flying cars were simply conventional vehicles with wings bolted on top, which had to be dismantled before the they could run on roads.
		But he is confident that the car would fly well over longer distances.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/354129.stm (446 words)

	Vuia Flying Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was common then to use a multiwheeled frame as the substructure for an aircraft because of the inherent stability of four equispaced wheels.
		The term 'car' cannot be seen in the same way we use it today, and the French for car, as we know it, is 'voiture'.
		Perhaps, as Dr. Naughton maintains, it was not a flying car at all and the meaning of the words used to describe that vehicle became lost in the translation.
	www.roadabletimes.com /roadables-modular_vuia.html (617 words)

	Flying Car
		With a flying car, I could make more trips to the grocery store, I live in the desert after all.
		Using parts from my neighbors car (please don’t tell) I am in the process of inventing the world’s first flying car, that actually flies.
		The first step in creating the flying car is forgetting about everything standard in regular car, because this is not regular car mind you.
	aflyingcar.blogspot.com (490 words)

	Molt Taylor's Aerocar Flying Car Automobile
		Taylor was revered as a kind of patron saint of the flying car.
		It was perfect to prove that a car can fly, but that's all they proved." Sarh feels the time is ripe-thanks in part to recent advances in lightweight composites and computer modeling techniques-for a major leap, well beyond some warmed-over newsreel version, to an entirely new flying car concept.
		A second version of the Flying Car was developed, which differed from the original by its having a conventional fourwheel layout on the car, and a single, rather than double, rudder arrangement.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Aerocar/info/info.htm (3338 words)

	Flying car ready for takeoff? \| CNET News.com
		Terrafugia, a start-up created by Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich and colleagues at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is aiming to show off what it calls the Transition "personal air vehicle," a vehicle resembling an SUV with retractable wings, to the EAA AirVenture Conference in Oshkosh, Wis., at the end of July.
		Flying cars are technically feasible; Terrafugia points out that inventor Molt Taylor built prototypes in the 1950s and 1960s--but they haven't been practical from an economic perspective.
		Flying is way beyond the average human being.
	news.com.com /StudentsCatCMITCgiveCflyingCcarCaCshot/2100-11389_3-6040007.html (816 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Cornwall \| Harry Potter's 'flying' car taken
		In the books, the car is imbued with magical powers by Arthur Weasley from the Ministry of Magic and used by his son Ron and Harry who are schoolmates at Hogwarts.
		The car's magical properties are triggered by a silver button on its dashboard and as well as flying it has a Tardis-like expanding interior.
		Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman Pc Baxter Provan said the car was stolen from the film studios at Penwinnick Road in St Agnes between 1730 BST on 26 October and 1615 BST on 27 October.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/4384244.stm (353 words)

	Google Earth Blog: Flying Car? Not Really (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Register, in their usual sensational journalistic style, have written a story which hypes the idea this is a flying car, and doesn't bother to speculate on alternatives.
		The direction of the "fl car" is correct to be the shadow of the white car, if you compare it to other objects casting shadows in the area.
		Posted by: Fred at February 1, 2006 11:53 AM The shadow of the white car is very much present, and it is consistent with the white car being on the ground.
	www.gearthblog.com /blog/archives/2006/01/flying_car_not.html (1377 words)

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	hybrid.carsvehicles.com /hybridcarstatistics (1073 words)

	USATODAY.com - Researchers inch toward making personal aircraft a reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The concept of personal flying machines seems to be as old as the aviation itself, yet cars, trucks and buses still claim the transportation throne.
		The challenge of fusing cars with airplanes is that, in the end, the final vehicle tends to be inefficient on the road and in the air.
		The first step is a demonstrator aircraft, called TailFan and expected to fly by the 2009 fiscal year, to tackle some of the biggest challenges to personal air vehicles.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-08-18-flying-car-future_x.htm (1172 words)

	Technorati Tag: flyingcar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Delta Connection Academy Flying School Delta Connection Academy accelerated pilot training at an airline owned flight school in Orlando, FL.
		With Americans on to daylight saving now (even though my computer still insists that the time zone is ‘standard time’), they might look to the skies...
		Filed under: Wheels, Wings Yet another flying car is entering the rapidly crowded race.
	technorati.com /tag/flyingcar (395 words)

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