One small problem with that, Mr Worf. The Osprey doesn't work. Last test flight I heard of ended in tears and lots of twisted metal. Maybe the Tyrannos, being on a smaller scale, stands a chance.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If they can make the Osprey work, then I guess that they can make one of > these fly. > > > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> I predict that this will make Keith happy... >> >> Dodge Roadside Bombs in a — Wait For It — *Flying Car* >> >> - By Spencer >> Ackerman<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/spencer_ackerman/> [image: >> Email Author] <spenceracker...@gmail.com> >> - July 1, 2010 | >> - 4:44 pm | >> - Categories: >> DarpaWatch<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/category/darpawatch/> >> - >> >> >> <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/dodge-roadside-bombs-in-wait-for-it-a-flying-car/releasetyrannossky/> >> >> Big military problem: Unfriendly forces hide bombs in the roads of >> Afghanistan, Iraq and, inevitably, future war zones. What to do about it? >> Well, *obviously*: Hit a button on the back of a steering wheel and >> vertically lift your vehicle off the road, into the sky, and out of the >> range of an improvised explosive device. Why didn’t the big brains at the >> Pentagon’s >> anti-roadside bomb squad <http://www.jieddo.dod.mil/> think of *that*? >> >> Probably because flying cars are the El Dorado of geekery: promised to us, >> like jetpacks, only to remain the elusive bounty of a cruel, ever-distant >> future. (Except for the Terrafugia >> Transition,<http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft.html>that is.) >> >> But a small new company called Logi AeroSpace thinks it can take us to the >> promised land. Meet the Tyrannos, a four-wheeled car that relies on four >> small rotary wings for its vertical lift and sounds like a >> herald<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrax>of >> Galactus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactus>. >> >> Read More >> http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/dodge-roadside-bombs-in-wait-for-it-a-flying-car/#ixzz0sdfK8xsW >> >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
