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Dude? Where's my flying car?

We've all gone to the Auto Shows to see new models coming out next year and typically have looks quite impressive, but what is really going to see visions of future automobiles. The concept cars.

As much as we can drool over a Lamborghini pants or a Lotus , Is the design of next-generation vehicles that really get our blood pressure rise and spinning globe on the back of the head. We love to see space as shapes of things to come especially if it is something that can sit in and go. If it is something that can fly, then even better.

Real cars of the future are not vehicles that roll on four wheels and look like streaks of lightning elegant or oblong tears hum instead of roar. No, the real prospect of visionary transportation is not bound by the winding roads, but by the rush of winds in the sky.

Here is the dream trip that has been lurking in humans and suffering in their nightmares as people realized that I could really see life in the 21st century – the flying cars.

Ever since the explosion of the new millennium upon us without our hard drives implosion or explosion of our CPU, mankind has been asking – " Where is my flying car? "

Was not this always lonely symbol of our emphasis on space travel was old, that we would have our own all private vehicles could roll out of the garage, sliding down the path of unity and take off into the blue that wild? I see the wild blue but how I will get to there? "

Apparently the age of the cars have a small vertical lift still has a ways to go, but not too far. In fact, there are some intrepid investors and companies that have prototypes at this point that we can bring into the mainstream of Jetson.

the company's latest design Moller M400 Skycar is that it is. This two-seat flying boat staff has vertical lift and landing and can fly at a maximum speed of 375 mph at an altitude of 13,200 feet. That is the speed and the perfect height for modern air route. George would be proud.

Even George Jetson could never afford dollar 1 million U.S. dollars in prices, taking into account what Mr Cosmo paid, with any luck hope to reduce production to the bargaining terrestrial only $ 60,000 once it enters mass production.
The aircraft made by Terrafugia road power is called the Transition. Priced at 148,000 dollars this little beauty has folding wings that allow you to surf the clouds, or drive the winding roads. It seems that this could be ready in production and the 2009.

The transition will have a fuel capacity of 20 gallons with a cruising speed of 120 miles per hour using about 75% power. mileage gas is better than most mid-size car with 30 MPGs in the air and 40 miles per gallon on the highway. When fully deployed the size of plane extends to 27 feet and the total length of the AIRC is 225 inches.

Most flying cars tend to look more like concept small aircraft or a hybrid of airplane and helicopter, the majority, except for the FSC 1TM Labiche Aerospace. A real treat for the sky jockey who wish to fly the stratosphere in hair-raising speeds while sitting in a sleek clamshell design beautiful.

The Labiche has wings and rear propeller that automatically is hidden inside the car when you're on the street, but when you are ready to take off her range and blow the birds at a maximum speed of 275 mph. Not one to mass production because the crowd Labiche is a kit to build himself that costs $ 175,000. Air airplane glue not included.

Urban Aeronautics introduces a revolutionary type of personal transport in the X-Hawk. Developed for real-world urban applications, the X's Falcon lift and vertical landing skills and uses a vane control system that consists of vanes at the inlet waterfall that gives this vehicle air ambulance only options for maneuver. This amazing control system allows the boat to move up, down, forward, backward and sides. This type of mobility is unprecedented and is a more complete articulation of much of the standards movement of roll, pitch and orientation.

Control of this kind gives greater stability Hawk X, either flying in gusty winds or have their passengers jump out, hopefully with a parachute. The design of the rotor-less control systems vane ends with the rotor head falls complicated and expensive than buying the ship and maintenance costs.

Imagine a world where you can take off into the sky, fly to the office and land on the roof or on the street. With advances in aerospace technology rapidly approaching reality, the day of our flying cars could literally have seen in our lives.

Now I want my package personal jet.

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