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BiPod Flying Car Makes (Short) Test Flights

Posted by Soulskill on from the enjoy-your-lawsuit-from-apple-over-the-name dept.

Zothecula writes "The team at Scaled Composites pulled out all the stops to realize the final design of the company's founder and former CTO, Burt Rutan, ahead of his retirement in April earlier this year. In just four months, the Scaled Composites team went from beginning the preliminary design to the first flight of the 'BiPod,' a hybrid gasoline-electric flying car that grew out of a program to develop a rapid, low-cost electric test bed using as many off-the-shelf components as possible."

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  1. Not a flying car by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Needs a runway to take off...