Roadable, Vertical-Takeoff Aircraft Is Eager To Hit the Battlefield

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 10, 2014 @05:23AM from the or-deliver-pizzas dept.

Zothecula writes "When someone mentions flying cars, it conjures up images of a sporty little number that takes to the air like something out of the Jetsons. But what about one that's a cross between a 4x4, an octocopter, and a blackhawk helicopter? That's what Advanced Tactics of El Segundo, California is seeing with its ambitions to produce a roadable VTOL aircraft capable of unmanned autonomous operations as a more flexible way to recover casualties, move supplies, and support special forces."

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Re:And here's your flying car. by tomhath · 2014-01-10 05:57 · Score: 2, Informative

Doesn't say anything about tax dollars. This looks like it's being privately developed, and all the pictures appear to be 'shopped.
Re:A terrible idea. by mythosaz · 2014-01-10 06:24 · Score: 3, Informative

>And since when is "roadable" a word? It always comes off as a pathetic attempt to legitimize a concept; the idea that something is so new and so awesome they had to make up a new term.
The early 1920's.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/roadable