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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Peugeot 908 RC concept car LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
James Martin Send message Joined: 27 Jun 06 Posts: 223 Credit: 62,205 RAC: 0 |
Do you think a hover-car will ever be in mainstream use... BUT, arent tires more effecient... a hover car would be more likely to crash etc |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Do you think a hover-car will ever be in mainstream use... BUT, arent tires more effecient... a hover car would be more likely to crash etc I know that the Flying car has received a lot of press in the past couple of years. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Do you think a hover-car will ever be in mainstream use... BUT, arent tires more effecient... a hover car would be more likely to crash etc Imagine rush hour and road rage...in three dimensions. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
I could see the Hover-Car using the same type of propulsion as the Maglev Trains Work Maglev LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1963 Ford Allegro Coupe Concept LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1964 Ford Gas Turbine Concept Truck LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Chrysler Turbine Car LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
James Martin Send message Joined: 27 Jun 06 Posts: 223 Credit: 62,205 RAC: 0 |
Do you think a hover-car will ever be in mainstream use... BUT, arent tires more effecient... a hover car would be more likely to crash etc A flying car would obviosuly be better than a hovering car. Ideally a verticle launch vehicle would be best.. something which could lift of vertically, then you could take off from your driveway, roof, back garden etc... not every home has space for a runway. Muhahaha... I have a quick 5min idea which could put me into earths orbit cheaply LOL LOL!!! Make a lil tiny ship, about 3metre square, and make it airtight lol. Then take it into the garden. Equip it with hundreds of BBQ gas tins, make some technical mechanism for the tins.. and have a hot air balloon on the top.. (a hot air balloon can take you higher than any jet aeroplace I hear), so when I get to the maximum height the balloon takes me, I can seperate from the balloon and ignite all gas canisters LOL... That actually probably would realisticly get me into orbit, Id probably be dead like, but it would work LOL. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Muhahaha... I have a quick 5min idea which could put me into earths orbit cheaply LOL LOL!!! They all explode, and turn you into paste is probably what would happen. BOINC WIKI |
Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
I'm a big fan of the Moller International Skycar. Their model M400b was advertised in the Christmas 2005 Nieman Marcus catalogue for a sale price of $3.6 million dollars. There were no takers. 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 which failed to meet the reserve bid price of $3,500,000. The company also had a bit of a legal setback in 2003. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Moller for civil fraud in connection with the sale of unregistered stock, and for making unsubstantiated claims about the performance of the Skycar. Moller settled this lawsuit by agreeing to a permanent injunction and paying $50,000. In the words of the SEC complaint, "As of late 2002, MI's approximately 40 years' of development has resulted in a prototype Skycar capable of hovering about fifteen feet above the ground." So unfortunately funding for the project on the public stock exchange is a no-go. I really hope they find funding to carry on with the project. It would be wonderful if these ever became affordable. Here's a pic of the Moller 400b in action: |
Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Here's a pic of the Moller 400b in action: What's with the lanyards? Does he not trust his own invention? ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Here's a pic of the Moller 400b in action: That's very observant of you! I was going to disprove your statement with this pic of the demonstration run for shareholders a while back... But Lookie Lookie! there's a lanyard there too! LOL I guess that being a prototype worth $3.5 million they'd rather be safe than sorry. |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
I loved the Tucker, It was a great Car... Many of its features we have today..Disk Brakes etc...1948... I saw this one in Colorado when it was in Pieces... http://www.tuckerclub.org/index.php |
Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
I loved the Tucker, It was a great Car... Wow! From the days when whitewalls were whitewalls. *sigh* |
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