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Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia

Posted by samzenpus on from the flying-education dept.

First time accepted submitter vawarayer writes "An experimental car has crashed near a school in British Columbia, Canada. Only five cars like this have been produced. From the article: 'A release from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) confirmed the flying car was "an American corporately registered I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute" that had crashed. The vehicle, known as "Maverick," uses a 100-metre runway to take off and flies under a parasail. But it also needs a 100-metre runway to make a safe landing.'"

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  1. One bad thing about flying cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Compared with normal cars, you have 50% more directions you can crash into something and gravity weakly prefers one of them.

  2. images by bhlowe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A quick google image search its just a motorized paraglider with a car body.. I've flew a friend's motorized paraglider about 15 years ago and it was pretty scary getting off the ground with the extra weight and higher than I was used to speeds.. Once in the air, it was still subject to gusts of wind deflating the wing.. There are many safer ways to fly for $94,000.. But... glad no one was seriously hurt...

  3. 100m runway? by Raptoer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If it needs a 100m runway isn't it really just an untra-light plane?
    A Helicopter is much closer to a flying car than this thing...