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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. Re:Not a flying car by GooberToo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One has nothing to do with the other. The fact you think it does is extremely weird.

    With your completely insane and illogical definition, many helicopters are not helicopters. Yes, that's right, when many helicopters are fully loaded, operate at high altitude, or operate in hot/humid environments,they too require a runway for take off. Here is a training video so you can see what it looks like. Hmmm. Very airplane-like. So its settled - helicopters are no longer helicopters. That's for enlightening us.