Directory:Flying Cars
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About flying cars, including emerging technologies, legends, and wishfull thinking.
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Competitions
- Prizes >
Centennial Challenges (http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/) - The NASA Centennial Challenges program also recognizes that the rapid and dramatic progress in aeronautics in the early years of the first century of flight was often driven by prize competitions. The General Aviation Technology Challenge is one of seven current NASA technology prize competitions with total purse of $300,000 for 7 areas for most green, least noise, safest run by the CAFE Foundation (http://cafefoundation.org/v2/main_home.php). (NASA' (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08188_General_Aviation_Challenge.html)'; July 28, 2008)
Videos
See http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flying+cars
Moller Skycar
- Moller Skycar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdd4Jt_rBE) - loud and barely flies. (YouTube; June 25, 2006)
- See Directory:Moller Skycar
Thurman ? Aeronautics
- REAL Flying Cars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBY5mp1mVfI) - clever careography. (YouTube; March 20, 2007)
GM Viral Marketing Campaign?
Could GM's advertising of flying cars have more substance than just a good marketing gig? Three alleged "amateur" video shots appear to catch cars in flight. Could just be a continuation of a marketing campgaign.
- Chinese Theater -- then flying cars go by (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COK8aqXs8h0) - Tourists taking normal shots suddenly get a surprise flyby of what appears to be four flying vehicles, including a yellow Hummer. (YouTube; Sept. 2, 2006)
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- Flying Car While Scating (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufUzlrpPZE) - End of scateboard segment happens to catch what appears to be two cars flying by, including the yellow Hummer. (YouTube; Sept. 2, 2006)
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- Car flying over freeway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-6OGMXrl1E) - Dudes driving down the road, suddenly notice two cars flying overhead. (YouTube; Nov. 5, 2006)
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- GM Flying Car Exhibit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajH5BC7La0) - China 2006; inflatable car. (YouTube; Nov. 21, 2006)
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- GM Flyin Car Advertisement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAyki8XfLTs) - Official advertisement, features airborne vehicles. The above "amateur" videos could be part of that campaign. (YouTube; Sept. 28, 2006)
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- Flying car (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6GVTGUQq4g) - actually just a ballon shaped like a car. (YouTube; June 11, 2006)
Rocket Cars
- flying cars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTPI7bMC1M) - 2 groups are making cars fly by attaching rocket propulsion. Not a serious venture. (YouTube; October 10, 2006)
Flying Axtra
- Flying Axtra commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No6EhWTBXWM) - clever careography. (YouTube; June 11, 2006)
At PESWiki
- Moller Skycar - Moller is developing a combination airplane and motorcar, powered by the Rotapower(R) engine.
- Flycycle: human-powered aircraft test pending - Canadian project objective is to build a practical human-powered aircraft. Their first prototype is nearing completion; testing is pending. Presently a do-it-yourself project, complete with instructions.
See also Personal Air Craft (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/AntiGravity/index.html#Personal_Air_Craft) index at FreeEnergyNews.com.
Websites
- http://www.gm.com/ - Homepage splash includes the phrases: "Make any road your runway" and "Born from Jets".
Companies
Terrafugia
- It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane (http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/08/from-the-runway-to-the-road-terrafugia-redefines-the-flying-car-make-that-drivable-airplane/) - A team of MIT aero/astro grads are building what could be the first practical airplane that's also certified for highway driving. Terrafugia hopes to have its first full-scale proof-of-concept vehicle ready to show off at July's AirVenture aviation festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. (XConomy; May 8, 2008)
- Flying Car About to Take Off? (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19499/?nlid=592) - [1] (http://www.terrafugia.com/Terrafugia) is developing the Transition, a roadable light sport aircraft that will be able to land at the airport, fold up its wings, and drive on the road. Company looks to complete a prototype of its roadworthy aircraft within a year. (MIT Technology Review; Oct. 10, 2007) (CNetNews (http://www.news.com/2300-11389_3-6040379-1.html?tag=nl); Sep. 6, 2006) (Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/10/122254); Nov. 10, 2007)
Hovercraft (Water)
- http://www.hovertechnics.com/Commercial/hoverprobe.htm - hover-technology vehicles powered by General Motors
- http://www.usamarineservice.com/album3.htm - hover-technology vehicles powered by General Motors
Electromagnetic Propulsion
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad4.htm
- Molecular Cars (http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_synopsis/4608-The_Space_Car.html)
In the News
- Inventions: Taking to the Air (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11567348/site/newsweek/) - The Transition, by Carl Dietrich, runs on regular gas. But you can drive it to the airport, extend its origami-like wings, take off at double the highway speed and fly up to 500 miles away, then touch down and park it in your host's garage. Dietrich predicts it will be on roads and in the air in about two years. (MSNBC / Newsweek; March 6, 2006)
- Where Is My Flying Car! (http://www.insomniacmania.com/articles_default.php?id=74) - You would have thought that we would be going around in hovering cars or spaceships by now. So what is going on, why are we still using land based vehicles as a mode of transport? (Insomniac; Mar. 24, 2005)
- GM Studies Flying Cars (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3012/is_2_180/ai_59966966) - Deep in the heart of General Motors' advanced engineering operations a small group of people are working on flying vehicles, admits Larry Burns, vice president of GM Research and Development. (Feb. 2000)
- 2006 Americas Virtual Product Development Conference (http://www.infoworld.com/Silicon_Graphics/company_49488.html?view=3&curNodeId=0&prId=LATU06927062006-1) - long and fruitful relationship between Boeing (manufacturers of the famous hovering Harrier Jet) and General Motors (Infoworld / PR Newswire; Jun 27, 2005)
- Boeing-G.M. Project (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED81F3FF93AA15752C1A96E948260) The Army today named the Boeing Company and the General Motors Corporation to co-develop a new guided missile. (NY Times; November 29, 1988)
Comments
Probably Viral Marketing Campaign
On Nov. 26, 2006, Tim Ventura of American Antigravity (http:americanantigravity.com) wrote:
Interesting - the GM flying car exhibit is clearly a helium balloon, but still interesting to see floating around.
My guess is that the "flying cars" in the amateur video are GM's attempt at viral video using traditional special effects. A true flying car wouldn't look like a regular auto for several reasons (roll stability, for instance), and a project to construct them - even with well-understood technologies - would be large enough that they couldn't keep it secret.
On Nov. 27, 2006, Tim Ventura of American Antigravity (http:americanantigravity.com) added:
Maybe the community should protest GM's "flying cars" campaign on the grounds that it's false advertising? Not that they're selling them, but that they're insinuating that GM is the type of progressive company that would be building flying cars if the technology existed, which they aren't. It's a bit like NASA associating themselves with Star Trek after shutting down their BPP program, or Microsoft airing commercials that describe how they support open-source programming standards, when they in fact do exactly the opposite.
On Nov. 28, 2006, Sam K added: With special effects becoming so solid it's really hard to tell if the amature footage is fake or not. The flight looks extremely stable though, which makes me suspicious. CGI sometimes even today does not accurately represent the weight of an object in their physics models and everything appears to stop on a dime.
See also
- Directory:Flight
- Directory:Anti-Gravity
- PowerPedia:Anti-gravity
- Directory:UFOs
- PowerPedia:UFO
- Directory:Propulsion
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