Have you seen what Terrafugia is up to these days? Pretty amazing concept, and since it’s a LSA, it’ll be exempt from some of the more rigorous laws out there.
Wired wrote today about DARPA, inventor of many of the military’s best toys, is working on a flying car. Naturally it will be intended for military use initially, but just the idea that the government is funding this kind of research is fascinating.
Will we see a day where we drive our plane, in car mode, to the airstrip, then take off? It’s a very Jetsons idea, but who can say what’s possible? Just over a hundred years ago the Wright brothers flew and today we have giant jetliners crisscrossing the globe…