...and now for something completely different

At least you have to have a pilots licence

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.

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

And now it exists as a reality

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

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 ? !!!!!

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

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.

That is such a bad idea...

Looks sharp though.

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. 

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

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.

That's too cool. Very nice.

Good Lord. Only in America ...

That is very cool.  Thx for sharing.

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