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Flying Cars Hop Slightly Closer With FAA Weight Waiver

Posted by timothy on from the I-just-stick-to-low-altitude dept.

JimFive writes "For years we've been waiting for the flying car to arrive. The FAA has made an exemption that moves this one step closer to reality. Terrafugia has been granted a weight limit exemption for a 'Roadable Airplane.' Next up is passing the federal highway safety tests."

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  1. Say what? by djupedal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Years? Anyone? Anyone....? Bueller?

    - Moller Skycars: 1962

    Try decades.....nearly two generations if you go back to when PM touted them as the next step in the American dream...

    1. Re:Say what? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Informative

      That is a flying car. This is just an airplane that you can drive home to your garage so you don't have to pay exorbitant hangar fees.

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    2. Re:Say what? by wilbrod · · Score: 3, Informative

      Years? Anyone? Anyone....? Bueller?

      Refundable airframe reservations are being accepted with first delivery scheduled for late 2011.

  2. Re:I hate the idea of flying cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're mistaken. I follow F1 a lot and whilst I'm no expert, I can assure you that the reason why driver aids were limited was the opposite of what you believe. Driver aids were limited because they were too good and consequently driver skill mattered less. Drivers were not competing with each other anymore - the teams' driver aids were. If any driver could outperform such systems, teams would obviously have removed them voluntarily.

  3. Re:I hate the idea of flying cars by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well I am talking about aircraft. Many military jets are almost impossible to fly without computer assistance. The airframe is unstable in the sense that without control input they would tumble about and crash.

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