OFF: the future is here

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Arin Komins wrote:

> A flying car design has just been approved by the FAA over here:
>
> http://www.terrafugia.com/
>
> now just need cheap jetpacks and the future (tm) will be here.

 	Oh but this is not a flying car in the good ol' Back to the 
Future or Fifth Element style. (Though, now I consider those more closely 
because of these semantics, I don't really see in what way those aren't 
just car-shaped aircraft, I have to admit.) This is a lightplane that's 
convertible for road use. Okay, getting one certified for use on both air 
and roads is quite a feat; but we've had the *technology* to do this since 
1949!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar

And that one is *also* road- and air-legal, though it probably wouldn't 
pass any of the tests now. Yours,
 				  Jon (apparently not the only one going 
backwards in time)

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       Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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