Nambo wrote:
Where are the fluing cars?
There here!.....
FLYING CARMind you, as Soloman said, theres nothing new under the sun, you see we had flying cars back in 1949
1949 FLYING CAR
Ive seen pictures of that thing - a perfectly functining prototype sedan they had in the Fifties.
It had detachable wings, tail, and pusher propereller. When all that was detached you could park in a garage, and you could drive it down the highway. When you got the airport you stick all of that on it if aand fly it like a little cessna. A medicre car that doubled as a mediocre plane ( kinda like those amphibous car/boats). Needless to say it never went into mass production despite the fact that it worked ( atleast it didnt fall out of the sky).
Even if you could build a good car that doubled as a good airplane thats still a far cry from the flying cars used by George Jetson in his daily commute to Spacely Sprockets Inc. He didnt have to go to an airport first before taking to the air- he just levitated off the porch of his high rise apartment. So were not talking about conventional heavier than air flight- we are talking about somekind of magnetic levitation technology that still has to be invented if you're trying to bring to life the flying cars envisioned in fifties pulp fiction and in the Jetsons cartoons.
In fact its amusing how they all predicted that by 2000 we would commute to work in flying cars or fly using personal jet packs because it turned out that the real George Jetsons of this 21st centurey "commute" to the office via the internet and stay at home.