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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

6 Flying Car Already Exist



You Are Going To Get Mind-Blogged After Seeing This



1.Curtiss-Wright Air Car
The Curtiss-Wright Air Car was a landspeeder for 1960
Following the end of World War II, the United States military invested a great deal of money in the development of new hardware offering tactical advantages on future battlefields. One of the concepts which the Army Transportation Research Command evaluated was the 1960 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air Car. This 21-foot-long, 8-foot-wide, 5-foot-tall contraption was everything that Luke Skywalker's landspeeder would promise 17 years later—stylish driving without the burden of wheels.

Curtiss-Wright was and remains an aerospace and defense supplier with experience in aircraft development. Following the war, the military had a keen interest in improving amphibious landing and transport craft. The Air Car was developed with that need in mind. Since the United States hadn't quite perfected repulsorlift technology yet, Curtiss-Wright had to go in a different direction, creating what was termed a 'Ground Effects Machine' (GEM), which we now know as a hovercraft. 

Twin 180-hp Lycoming aircraft engines were mounted fore and aft in the Air Car's tube-frame chassis and powered two enormous, vertical ducted fans. At full power, the Air Car rode on a 15-inch cushion of air and could lift a 1000-lb payload.

2.SkyRunner
Video VIA:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajvqB...
SkyRunner is a dune buggy and a power parachute in one. After almost three years in development, it is on track to hit the market later this year.

3.Maverick:http://mavericklsa.com/
The Maverick LSA design has been developed as an easy-to-operate – air & land craft. It is intuitive and safe to fly, drive and maintain by people in frontier areas of the world enabling them to use this unique vehicle in missions and humanitarian applications – in the world “beyond roads.”

4.PAL-V:http://pal-v.com/

5.Terrafugia:http://www.terrafugia.com/

6.AeroMobil:http://www.aeromobil.com/



As an Addition To This....  Check This Under Water Car>>>


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The World’s First Flying Car Will Launch In 2017




This is by far the coolest thing we've seen at SWSW‬ Interactive this year.

Peter Thiel, the outspoken Silicon Valley venture capitalist once famously said,
 “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”

Well, now we’re about to finally get flying cars!
A Slovakia-based company called AeroMobil just unveiled their flying car prototype at SXSW Interactive. It gets up to 700 km of flight on a tank of regular gasoline. It’s scheduled to go on sale in 2017 and it will be aimed at a wealthy clientele of early adopters (you will need a pilot’s license to “fly” it).

Autonomous self-flying cars will be the next step. Just imagine a flying car service like Uber!


Here’s a good promotional video the company has created for its Flying Car prototype:


Specs

General characteristics
  • Crew: two
  • Capacity: two passengers
  • Length: 6 m (19 ft 8 in)
  • Wingspan: 8.32 m (27 ft 4 in) wings extended
  • Width: 2.24 m (7 ft 4 in) wings folded
  • Empty weight: 600 kg (1,323 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 912 four cylinder horizontally-opposed liquid and air-cooled piston aircraft engine, 75 kW (100 hp)
Performance
  • Maximum speed: 200 km/h (124 mph; 108 kn) maximum road speed: 160 km/h (99 mph)
  • Stall speed: 60 km/h (37 mph; 32 kn)
  • Range: 700 km (435 mi; 378 nmi) Road range: 875 km (544 mi)
  • Driving fuel consumption: 8 l/100 km (29.4 mpg-US; 35.3 mpg-imp)
  • Flight fuel consumption: 15 l (4.0 US gal; 3.3 imp gal) /hour

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