...and now for something completely different

hawkeye2an_L-Bird_fan

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February 2010
From: Burlington,Iowa

...and now for something completely different

Posted by hawkeye2an_L-Bird_fan on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 7:41 AM

The Fying Pinto !!

Yes it was a real plane/car, yes it did fly (Google it) and yes it did kill the people who flew it.

Car body is a much modified 1/43 die-cast dragster. Plane parts are from 1/48 Hawk O-2 kit.

http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab203/hawkeye2an/Models%201/flyingpinto2.jpg
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab203/hawkeye2an/Models%201/flyingpinto1.jpg

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Styrene Nut

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November 2009

Posted by Styrene Nut on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 9:05 AM

Very impressive!...Nice work! Thanks for sharing! Dave.

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9x19mm

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December 2003
From: Phoenix,Az

Posted by 9x19mm on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 12:39 PM

That is very cool. Thx for sharing.

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mfsob

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March 2005
From: West Virginia, USA

Posted by mfsob on Saturday, April 24, 2010 10:15 AM

Good Lord. Only in America ...

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Medicman71

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October 2009
From: Houston, Texas

Posted by Medicman71 on Saturday, May 1, 2010 10:34 PM

That's too cool. Very nice.

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Scorpiomikey

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March 2010
From: New Zealand

Posted by Scorpiomikey on Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:09 PM

brilliant model. just read the vehicle history. the designer was northrop trained, and he built something northrop would have been ashamed of (quality wise). crash was put down to bad welds. sheet metal screws and poor engineering. strut seperated from the car, wings folded, everything crashed a burned.

History aside. Fantastic model. looks really good.

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Hogan

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March 2006
From: California

Posted by Hogan on Friday, May 14, 2010 6:30 PM

What we have here is an elaborate rear-end-collision avoidance device. It was supposed to look like it was designed to get the Pinto airborne, but in reality it allowed the driver to be protected from nearly all sides--but especially the back. It would have just been plain embarrassing to call it anything but a plane-car. Confused

Enough fooling around. That is a very nice build, very sharp.

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Hun Hunter

Member since
June 2010
From: Spokane, WA

Posted by Hun Hunter on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:03 AM

That is such a bad idea...

Looks sharp though.

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Jim Barton

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February 2003

Posted by Jim Barton on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:31 AM

mfsob

Good Lord. Only in America ...

Every so often, we still get these "inventors" who think that airplane/car combinations will be the next great thing.

Fascinating vision: Entire fleets of these car/plane combos with commuters flying in from the suburbs while texting and/or yapping on their cell phones, flying into a tree here, dropping through a roof there.

Stirs the blood just to think of it. Smile

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Jon_a_its

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April 2004

Posted by Jon_a_its on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:34 PM

Wasn't this, or similar, used in an early James Bond movie?

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hawkeye2an_L-Bird_fan

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February 2010
From: Burlington,Iowa

Posted by hawkeye2an_L-Bird_fan on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:02 PM

Same idea but that was a model of a Matador with a jet engine. This thing actually flew, killing the two brainiacs that invented it. The crash was due to sheet metal screws being used to fasten the plane parts to the car. Can you say....Darwin ? !!!!!

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Scorpiomikey

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March 2010
From: New Zealand

Posted by Scorpiomikey on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:41 PM

And now it exists as a reality

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1097324/Worlds-flying-car-roads-year--just-130-000.html

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Glue Mark

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May 2010

Posted by Glue Mark on Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:45 PM

Interresting, but I'll stay with my fold-up bicycle in the baggage compartment.

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Jim Barton

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February 2003

Posted by Jim Barton on Monday, August 2, 2010 12:18 PM

hawkeye2an_L-Bird_fan

Same idea but that was a model of a Matador with a jet engine. This thing actually flew, killing the two brainiacs that invented it. The crash was due to sheet metal screws being used to fasten the plane parts to the car. Can you say....Darwin ? !!!!!

They should've used duct tape. Big Smile