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Flying car crashes on test taxi
Motorists have long dreamed about flying cars, but they’re still not common place despite the best efforts of a number of different companies. One of the firms working on the idea is Detroit Flying Cars and they’ve suffered a major setback as their WD-1 prototype has crashed at Willow Run Airport in Michigan. According to WDIV and WXYZ, the crash happened shortly after 1 pm local time when the WD-1 was conducting a taxi test. During the test, the plane unexpectedly went airborne and crashed back… (www.carscoops.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Think of some say 100 Terrafugias or similar concoctions thereof happily flying over Manhattan on a nice spring afternoon driven (not piloted) by teenagers, old ladies, middle men looking for fun and add to the explosive mixture some 500 Amazon/UPS/Pizza Hut, etc. drones rushing to deliver orders. It took one or two helicopters of New York Airways crashing down on the top of the PanAm building to stop landing there. The End of the World as we know it is Coming (LIMAO).
It sounds like something Howard Hughes would have said when 'testing' the Spruce Goose back in 1947 at Long Beach. Just showing my age...
Looks like the video clip was taken from, God forbid, a.... DRONE!
Well as the old sang goes, "back to the drawing board".
Such test are recommended to be carried out on field air strips instead of places of rush and venues of human activity to save loss to men and matetial. Experiments are always done in isolated sites.
1 down, 38 to go before they get to WD-40. That one will fly.
Flying cars are the very definition of compromise. They are neither a good car nor a good aircraft, so there are two good reasons why they should all be firmly locked inside hangars or garages -- permanently.