Warbird Information Exchange

Go on Fox news and see the article about the new flying car. It's called a Terrafugia, it is as ugly as it sounds. It goes 90 mph on the road, 115 in the air and costs $200,000. The good thing is that it does the conversion itself automatically. Who knows, some guy made millions selling rubber shoes with holes in them.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

More importantly they are covering the cheerleader playoffs

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" excuse me stewardess I speak jive"

The Terrafugia might actually turn out to be something more than a sideshow circus act. Most if not all of the people involved are MIT graduates and are SMART, SMART folks. I've met some of them during AirVenture.

If you truly want a roadable aircraft, you can get one right now from Larry Neal, designer of the Super Sky Cycle gyroplane. The SSC is a street legal motorcycle and an extremely well designed autogyro. Check it out here:

http://www.thebutterflyllc.com/sscycle/gallery.htm

Zack

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Curator - EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh, WI
"Let No Story Go Untold!"
http://www.timelessvoices.org

Is it like a 2009 Bellagio?

legally, do you have to drive to an airport to take off? (Serious Question)

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Taylor Stevenson

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Taylor,
read the FARs, you are not required to operate off a airport, but you do so at your own risk.

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Matt Gunsch, A&P, IA, Warbird maint and restorations
Jack, You have Debauched my sloth !!!!!!
We tried voting with the Ballot box, When do we start voting from the Ammo box, and am I allowed only one vote ?
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AS they say, 'if it looks right, it is right' that thing looks like a pinstriped toad-are they going to race it in IMSA P-2 this year @ Daytona?
For $200 very large??

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

I wouldn't want to risk a decent airplane on the road with some of the crazies, cell phone distracted drivers, and uninsured motorists out there.

I don't know, but I think that Texas has some codes about aircraft NOT operating off of highways and such... Would be interesting to find out about other state's laws.

Ryan

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Aerial Photographer with Red Wing Aerial Photography currently based at KRBD and tailwheel CFI.
Websites: Texas Tailwheel Flight Training, DoolittleRaid.com and Lbirds.com.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. - Prov. 21:31 - Train, Practice, Trust.

It is not a matter of the engineering. Molt Taylor produced a handful of flying cars fully certificated as cars and planes 50 years ago. What Taylor and the Terrafugia guys don't understand is the psychology of pilots. When I get back into flying I want to fly a plane not a car. I take to the air to get away from all my cares and woes on the ground. Why would I want to take my ground vehicle into the air when I want to escape what is on the ground?

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.