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Originally posted by bauldrick
reply to post by PhoenixOD
great for the mobile terrorist lol also one way of putting a finger up to them tsa agents, $200 000 that is probably cheap for a terrorist organisation lol
Originally posted by Bixxi3
Originally posted by bauldrick
reply to post by PhoenixOD
great for the mobile terrorist lol also one way of putting a finger up to them tsa agents, $200 000 that is probably cheap for a terrorist organisation lol
lols aside thats actually a good point the msn has always said how a bomb can be made from household products.and there latest scare is "home grown" terrorists so what to stop a well funded terrorist from loading up one of these from homemade explosives and crashing in a crowded public place? if its as bad as they say we should of had alot more incidents but thankfully its not as bad as the say.edit on 9-7-2011 by Bixxi3 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
At least with a plane when the motor goes wrong you have some small chance of gliding to a safe landing. Gyros and choppers just drop out of the sky.
I watched the videos but supposedly and [I'm no chopper pilot so I wouldn't know for sure] but there is a technique that when a choppers engine cuts out to have a controlled crash landing which is [supposedly for trained pilot in that technique] pretty safe to do.
Maybe someone here at ATS with experience and knows what I'm talking about could chime in to clarify.edit on 9-7-2011 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by hounddoghowlie
reply to post by 2manyquestions
because it's not exactly, a lear or even a cessna now is it. which is all about aircraft. no automobile issues to worry about. plus you would have to get it inspected twice, once for highway once for air. and then i'm sure there are other things that haven't come to mind yet.
they already have small airstrips at the edge of town all over, i live just 5 miles from one town is only 8 miles.
and i'm sure those that already have a air plane already avoid waiting in a airport for 2 hrs or driving 6 to 8 hours by going to their plane at the little airports outside of town. and if the scenario you are talking about, was to play out our skies would soon look like our highways in grid lock during rush hour, or some holiday weekend.
now this craft is nothing new as far as making a flying car, how many examples have we seen in just this thread that have come before this one. just a different design to the same idea.
my idea of imagination, is something that no one else has done before, and it doesn't cause any new or existing problems that are not beneficial advances for the human race.
Originally posted by NeoVain
Problem is, you will still need an airport as mentioned to take off with this one. Pretty worthless IMO.
I´m surprised no one have mentioned the moller skycar yet, moller.com...
These guys have been working on a REAL vtol skycar for over 20 years, looks much more interesting that this plane hybrid.
With the moller you are supposed to be able to take off everywhere, even from the middle of a trafic jam. Now THATS interesting...
The only flight demonstrations have been hover tests performed in 2003 by a Skycar prototype that for insurance reasons was tethered to a crane. The ongoing failure of the Moller company to actually fly an M400 led the National Post to characterize the Skycar as a 'failure', and to describe the Moller company as "no longer believable enough to gain investors".
In October 2006, Moller attempted to auction the only prototype of its M400 model on eBay. It failed to sell. The highest bid was $3,000,100; Dr. Moller reported at the annual meeting of stockholders on October 21, 2006 in Davis, California that the reserve price had been $3,500,000. A previous attempt in 2003 to sell the M400 via eBay was also unsuccessful.
Originally posted by NeoVain
Problem is, you will still need an airport as mentioned to take off with this one. Pretty worthless IMO.
I´m surprised no one have mentioned the moller skycar yet, moller.com...
These guys have been working on a REAL vtol skycar for over 20 years, looks much more interesting that this plane hybrid.
With the moller you are supposed to be able to take off everywhere, even from the middle of a trafic jam. Now THATS interesting...
Originally posted by CaptChaos
Now, I'm no expert on this stuff, I have just recently been getting into the idea of an autogyro or gyrocopter and have been researching it alot.
I know several pilots, and all the fixed wing guys say, "You'd never get me up in one of them fling wing deathtraps" and the helo guys all say the helo is safer than a plane cause you can autorotate.
However, without the tail rotor a helo will start spinning around and you are doomed. Apparently this is the advantage of the gyrocopter. According to all the gyrocopter enthusiasts, the gyrocopter is much safer than either a plane or a helo.
In a plane, yes, it can glide a little bit, but unless you happen to be right over a BIG clear area, you are done. Can't glide into the trees, you know. Or mountains.
Originally posted by Hessdalen
you want - you loose...i loose
2nd
but i thing the gyrocoptercar is much better because you can make a vertical start
edit on 9-7-2011 by Hessdalen because: mindcontrol