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ISSUE
162 - March 2011
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| "My
Flying Car" - Again |
By David Rose,
Contributing Editor
San Diego, California |
Rich
Strong is one of those visionary men after my own heart.
He’s an engineer, (who’s who in science
and engineering) who decided fifty years ago that it was time
for a flying car. His efforts are well chronicled on his website where
you may follow the development of his “StrongMobile
Flying Car Project”. |
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| On the website
there is a telling statement, ”The overwhelming majority
of the people Rich has talked with say they want a StrongMobile.” I
think we all know that what they’re really saying is
that, no matter what it looks like, or how it works, they want
a flying car. Don’t we all. |
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And now we see not only
do we, the normal everyday folk who just want an easier way
to get from here to there, but our ‘governments’ are
way more interested then we had imagined.
If money has been
the problem (let alone imagination, creativity and genius)
then our worries are over. DARPA to the rescue! (Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency). Yup. DARPA. That great creator of
concepts is interested. DARPA is willing to loosen it’s
(our) purse strings up to $54 million over the life of the
program for, as they put it, a vehicle with “terrain-independent
mobility.”
 Now everybody is on the bandwagon. Companies everywhere are dusting off old concepts
as well as developing new ideas of all kinds. My flying car is just around the
corner.
DARPA’s criterion? No runway. Vertical take off and land. No special
infrastructure. The thing must also have an unrefueled range of 250 nautical
miles and high standard of safety. Sounds expensive. Maybe “my flying car” is
a little further down the block than I thought.
I’ll keep you posted.
Read
more in Clay Dillow’s article
in PopSci
and Jeremy Hsu’s “The
Pentagon agency hopes to have a $43 million VTOL SUV in the air by 2015”. |
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