On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:35:58AM -0700, Doug Turner wrote: | You guys are all missing the boat. This is the ultimate soaring car! | | http://www.newsobserver.com/print/saturday/front/story/2161226p-8542613c.html
Uh-huh. Only made it to two feet or so if I read the article right. Though it certainly does _look_ cool. A better one would be something like this -- http://www.jims-pages.com/foison/flyingcar.html or this -- http://www.fordpinto.com/mitzar1.htm (Though that one ultimately killed Smolinski and the pilot, Harold Blake.) There have been a few more through the years as well. They really did fly and were somewhat practical, though they never really `took off' (pun intended.) More on them here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car To make this soaring related, well, I doubt any of these plane/cars soared well (since they probably hada very high wing loading) and most of them seem to be pretty cramped, so any R/C planes you'd store in them would probably have to be small. Personally, I just bought a Ford Taurus station wagon for my R/C transportation needs. Plenty of room, acceptable gas milage (not great, but acceptable.) Actually, the Mazda 323 I had before that, which is just about as small as cars get, worked pretty good too when I put the back seat down. But the Taurus definately has a lot more room, and I can fill it with people *and* planes at the same time! -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] `When all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.' RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
