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NASA competition offers green challenge for air travel - In the spirit of the X-Prize and the Lunar X Prize, NASA's Green Flight Challenge is enticing creative types with a USD$1.5 million prize in which designers need to create an aircraft that is low cost, quiet, has a short take-off, is 'road worthy' and gets excellent passenger-miles per gallon. (GizMag August 4, 2009)
Directory:Prizes > Centennial Challenges - 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. (''NASA'' July 28, 2008)
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Directory:Moller Skycar - Moller is developing a combination airplane and motorcar, powered by the Rotapower(R) engine.
Directory:Flycycle - 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.
Directory:Flight / Directory:Fuel Efficiency > Directory:Flying Cars > Directory:Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) Engine > DARPA kick-starts flying car program - US Military scientists have announced the Transofermer (TX) initiative to ramp up research and development of a flying military vehicle that will hold up to 4 people and have the ability to launch vertically and soar when necessary and support range and speed efficiencies that will allow for missions to be performed on a single tank of fuel. (NetworkWorld Jan. 4, 2009)
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
PAL-V Europe BV - The PAL-V ONE is a hybrid of a car a motorbike and a gyrocopter: a personal air and land vehicle. On the road it has the agility of a motorbike, and the single rotor and propeller fold away. Airborne, the PAL-V flies below 4,000ft, so pilots don’t need to log a flight plan to use it, and it has a top speed of about 125mph.
Parajet - The Parajet powered paraglider (PPG) makes flying possible for everyone, it is safe, easy to learn and so compact it can be folded into a couple of travel bags and taken anywhere in the world.
See http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flying+cars
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Moller Skycar - loud and barely flies. (YouTube June 25, 2006)
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REAL Flying Cars - clever careography. (YouTube March 20, 2007)
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.
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Chinese Theater -- then flying cars go by - 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 Skating - End of skateboard 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 - Dudes driving down the road, suddenly notice two cars flying overhead. (YouTube Nov. 5, 2006)
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GM Flying Car Exhibit - China 2006 inflatable car. (YouTube Nov. 21, 2006)
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GM Flyin Car Advertisement - 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 - actually just a ballon shaped like a car. (YouTube June 11, 2006)
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flying cars - 2 groups are making cars fly by attaching rocket propulsion. Not a serious venture. (YouTube October 10, 2006)
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Flying Axtra commercial - clever careography. (YouTube June 11, 2006)
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http://www.gm.com/ - Homepage splash includes the phrases: "Make any road your runway" and "Born from Jets".
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad4.htm
Skycar Expedition 2009 - The Parajet Skycar is the first, two seater, high performance, road legal, bio-fuelled flying car capable of providing rally car performance on and off road, and light aircraft performance after just a few minutes of wing preparation. (Skycar Expedition Jan 22. 2009)
Inventions: Taking to the Air - 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! - 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 - 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 - 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 The Army today named the Boeing Company and the General Motors Corporation to co-develop a new guided missile. (NY Times November 29, 1988)
On Nov. 26, 2006, Tim Ventura of American Antigravity 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 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.
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