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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.

    1. Re:One bad thing about flying cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      A bit orthogonally limited are we?

  2. I gotta ask... by Macchendra · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is the Whomping Willow ok?

  3. 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...

  4. Note To Flying Car Manufacturers by guttentag · · Score: 3, Funny

    Naming your flying car "Parachute" suggests you expect it to fail and necessitate the use of a parachute. Kind of like Dodge Aries implies your 22 hp hunk of metal is intended to ram into things.

  5. Re:Not A Flying Car by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is a streetable car, and it does fly. What was the specific complaint? That it doesn't look like you want one to look, and has more constraints on the flying cars you want? It's a powered paraglider contained within a car. You can drive the car to the runway and takeoff and fly. No, it's not the futuristic looking jet cars (like the Moller, 5 years away from approval/sale for 30 years now), but I fail to see how "flying car" doesn't apply.

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  6. Re:I figured out the problem by PNutts · · Score: 4, Informative

    If a meter is not equal to a metre, where are we going ? A liter not being equal to a litre ? A ton not being equal to a tonne ? A gallon not being equal to a gallon ?

    He demonstrated that an ass is the same as an arse.

  7. Re:Not A Flying Car by ceoyoyo · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a car that flies, so it's a flying car. Sorry if that doesn't satisfy your Jetsons dreams.