The Osprey works. We have been jumping out of them for the past 3 years. They are big and a little noisey.
Fate On Sat Jul 3rd, 2010 6:31 PM EDT Martin Baxter wrote: >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
