y los autos que vuelan che?

[Analrapist]

2007 guachos 2007 JAUJauj

[rod]

Flying car ready for takeoff?
MIT students working on a vehicle--resembling an SUV with retractable wings--they hope will carry two people on 100- to 500-mile hops.
Images: Terrafugia's flying car
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: February 15, 2006, 12:41 PM PST
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This summer, graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will try to get an idea aloft that has intrigued people for decades: the flying car.

Terrafugia, a start-up created by Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich and colleagues at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is aiming to show off what it calls the Transition "personal air vehicle," a vehicle resembling an SUV with retractable wings, to the EAA AirVenture Conference in Oshkosh, Wis., at the end of July.

The Transition is designed for 100- to 500-mile jumps. It will carry two people and luggage on a single tank of premium unleaded gas. It will also come with an electric calculator (to help fine-tune weight distribution), airbags, aerodynamic bumpers and of course a GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation unit.

The company hopes to eventually have the vehicle classified so that it can be piloted with a light sport aircraft license.

No complete prototype exists yet, but the company has a one-fifth scale wind tunnel model (along with computer simulations) and will use the $30,000 from the Lemelson prize to build something to show off at the Oshkosh show. A fully operational prototype is expected to come out in 2008 or earlier, according to the company, while Transition vehicles are expected to hit the road, and the sky, by 2009 or 2010.

"We have a lot of confidence that if the interest is there, we can deliver this product," Dietrich said. "There is a huge amount of general interest, but the question is, is there a market for it?"

Building retractable wings won't be the major challenge: F-18s and even some World War II era planes have folding wings. Instead, one of the biggest challenges will be creating enough cargo room to satisfy customers. The planes, which will cruise up to 12,000 feet, will probably use an off-the-shelf engine, he added.
Carl Dietrich Carl Dietrich

In the past few years, the skies have become a new frontier for entrepreneurs and academics. The chase for the X Prize led entrepreneur Richard Branson and others to begin to contemplate space tourism. PayPal founder Elon Musk, meanwhile, has started SpaceX, a private company that hopes to launch rockets for satellite deployment, similar to the more heavily funded Sea Launch venture. Stanford University professors teach a course on do-it-yourself satellites.

Short-range aircraft and flight start-ups have sprung up as well. Citrix founder Ed Iacobucci has launched DayJet, which plans on buying a fleet of Eclipse planes for on-demand travel between regional hubs. People Airlines founder has a similar company based on the small, lightweight Eclipse. (Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is an investor in Eclipse.)

And for backyard adventurers, Elwood "Woody" Norris has the AirScooter, a personal helicopter. Graduate students at Stanford also have hatched a secretive start-up geared at recreational flyers, according to sources familiar with their plans.

Flying cars are technically feasible; Terrafugia points out that inventor Molt Taylor built prototypes in the 1950s and 1960s--but they haven't been practical from an economic perspective.

[Analrapist]

bueno fuera de joda hablamos de lago que se yo
algo.

uhm que se yooo
ya fue

[rod]

que se yo

[Felt]

AJAUj Posta... Que devuelvan la guita

[Felt]

2007 y todavía existe el diesel... Que MIERDA

[Analrapist]

you do understand me, Uncle Daiver

[Dr.Evil]

yo tengo un deloran voladorrr

[Dr.Evil]

y vos ironman como director de shield tenes autitos voladores

[Analrapist]

Jauja dios cuanta droga que buena noche
bueg

[Dr.Evil]

Ironman larga los autos voladores de shield

[Rocket]

el otro dia hubo un documental en discovery de los trajes para volar, y veias que los guachos volaban posta, re bien, y volaban bastante distancias, pero pararon de hacer los trajes esos porque decian los militares que se convertían en un blanco fail de esa manera sadasdasda´sdasdsdsddsds

[Night Walker]

Che pero para que queres autos voladores? Para chocarte de maneras mas impresionantes? Para que algun boludo se te meta por el techo de tu casa?

Nah, ya estamos suficientemente mal con los autos normales.

Ah re contra progreso.

asd Hablando posta, primero que desarrollen un sistema automatico de conduccion, o alguna cosa que te asegure que la gente no tenga los peores accidentes.

[ánima]

ortiva

[german1410]

2007 y todavía existe el diesel... Que MIERDA

Muy simple papa, es la guita. Los culiados dueños del "oro negro" (no es lo mismo que el caminito de tierra) manejan el planeta asi que acostumbrate o empeza a tragar libros y hacete uno vos