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		It's 2012, here's your damn flying car (dailymail.co.uk)		55
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Ennuipoet		2012-03-17 02:54:48 PM

FINALLY!

GORDON		2012-03-17 03:00:49 PM

Well obviously it doesn't count.

encyclopediaplushuman		2012-03-17 03:02:28 PM

Where's my flying car subby?

Hypothetical Imperative		2012-03-17 03:04:54 PM

Twelve f*cking years late.

Someone owes Avery a beer.

Trashy		2012-03-17 03:05:59 PM

Also..... (new window)

Flashman73		2012-03-17 03:06:27 PM

Bah, why bother, what we really wanted was given to us years ago by the good people at Fleshlight Inc.

Government Fromage		2012-03-17 03:08:59 PM

Sweet, that is like 3 miles from me.

Now I want to go over there and see it.

albatros183		2012-03-17 03:12:06 PM

This flying car sucks and is really old
I have to get off the lawn for it

GET ME A REAL FLYING CAR!

/Must include onions and bubbles

Uncle Tractor		2012-03-17 03:12:16 PM

Future fark headline:

"It's 2020, here's your drunk driver in his damn flying car"

rhiannon		2012-03-17 03:13:10 PM

The two-seat Aerocar was first designed in 1949 and now looks set to fly off the forecourts

Crap and here's me with no forecourts. Oh well.

LeroyBourne		2012-03-17 03:13:16 PM

I don't want it now, subby.

GreenAdder		2012-03-17 03:14:40 PM

Flying car? That's so last century. We want wormholes now.

MrPleasant		2012-03-17 03:16:42 PM

That is not a flying car... It's a driving plane.

Trance750		2012-03-17 03:19:04 PM

Well that's all fine and good, but where in the fark is my sassy robot maid?

GDubDub		2012-03-17 03:21:23 PM

MrPleasant: That is not a flying car... It's a driving plane.

I came to say *exactly* this.

UseUrHeadFred		2012-03-17 03:22:53 PM

We don't need flying cars. But we do need a different kind of software.

Government Fromage		2012-03-17 03:24:38 PM

Trance750: Well that's all fine and good, but where in the fark is my sassy robot maid?

"Undocumented" Mexicans and South Americans have proved to be more cost effective.

Trance750		2012-03-17 03:25:58 PM

Government Fromage: Trance750: Well that's all fine and good, but where in the fark is my sassy robot maid?

"Undocumented" Mexicans and South Americans have proved to be more cost effective.

Yeah, but I just want something you only have to buy once and use it over and over again... you know, like Paris Hilton

apachevoyeur		2012-03-17 03:26:01 PM

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. And it clearly flies.

Tomfoolery Rules Over Logical Living		2012-03-17 03:35:03 PM

apachevoyeur: [4.bp.blogspot.com image 640x360]

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. And it clearly flies.

They've also since made a bus like that, too.

www.seeing-stars.com

Guidette Frankentits		2012-03-17 03:35:41 PM

WAIT.
WAIT.
WAIT.
WAIT.
WAIT.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
wait
wait
wait
wait

What's a forecourt?

KrispyKritter		2012-03-17 03:43:50 PM

old flying car is like many things you see on eBay. stuff that should go to museums so many people can enjoy viewing them.

too many things that should be shared wind up in the hands of rich old men who will just have them shuttered away in warehouses. storing up possessions as if it will buy them passage into the next life. morans.

LegacyDL		2012-03-17 03:44:11 PM

Ennuipoet: [i2.ytimg.com image 480x360]
FINALLY!

Thread over in the boobies.

/Loved that commercial.

cantsleep		2012-03-17 03:56:16 PM

I hpoe to God no one ever comes up with a real flying car.
I have enough problems with idiot drivers who can't figure out roads, nevermind altitude.

USAF Retired		2012-03-17 03:57:07 PM

Meh, Its been done

VaportrailFilms		2012-03-17 03:57:21 PM

That's not a flying car. That's a driving plane.

This is a flying car:
www.popsci.com

Joafu		2012-03-17 04:02:36 PM

Flying car? That's a plane that can fall apart in ten, easy minutes.

No thank you. I'll just keep playing the lottery until...
www.aircraftcompare.com

Cerebral Knievel		2012-03-17 04:07:27 PM

USAF Retired: [i14.photobucket.com image 471x500]

Meh, Its been done

Awww man... you stole my flying pinto post

Trance750		2012-03-17 04:09:25 PM

Joafu: in ten, easy minutes.

borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com

/10 easy minutes

//first thing I thought of

slave2grind		2012-03-17 04:13:20 PM

I'm with Vaportrailfilms on this one.
3.bp.blogspot.com

This is also a flying car.
Not the airplane in the article.

Ivo Shandor		2012-03-17 04:14:29 PM

Terrafugia has already been mentioned, so I'll just leave this here instead.
img18.imageshack.us

(Link)

cig-mkr		2012-03-17 04:16:39 PM

I remember seeing them in Popular Science back in the 50s

cleveralthere		2012-03-17 04:34:05 PM

Ivo Shandor: Terrafugia has already been mentioned, so I'll just leave this here instead.
[img18.imageshack.us image 400x279] (Link)

without doubt, one of Top Gear's finest moments of ludicrousness.

Bathia_Mapes		2012-03-17 04:39:49 PM

Yeah, they already did this in the James Bond movie, "Man With the Golden Gun".

cantsleep		2012-03-17 04:47:16 PM

USAF Retired: [i14.photobucket.com image 471x500]

Meh, Its been done

You do realize that one in the article is older, right?

Duke_leto_Atredes		2012-03-17 05:00:38 PM

fillahbuster		2012-03-17 05:18:08 PM

Guidette Frankentits: WAIT.
WAIT.
WAIT.
WAIT.
WAIT.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
wait
wait
wait
wait

What's a forecourt?

I think it's what British people call the part of a car dealership that's right outside in front of the showroom.

All_Farked_Up		2012-03-17 05:21:20 PM

If I need a pilots license then it's not a flying car.

gerbilpox		2012-03-17 05:28:21 PM

rhiannon: The two-seat Aerocar was first designed in 1949 and now looks set to fly off the forecourts.

Forecourt? I think I got that cut off when I was a baby.

GypsyJoker		2012-03-17 05:36:04 PM

It's the 80s; where's our rocket packs?

jigger		2012-03-17 05:41:26 PM

Yeah, that thing in the article is called an airplane.

I guess we've had flying cars since 1903.

gerbilpox		2012-03-17 05:42:53 PM

Unimpressed.

Drummer		2012-03-17 05:59:57 PM

MeinRS6		2012-03-17 06:15:46 PM

That looks safe.

And I like that you have to put it together and take it apart a couple of times a day. No one would ever get a phone call in the middle of putting their wings and prop on and screw that up.

Sudlow		2012-03-17 06:35:38 PM

More information. I saw this when in Seattle a few weeks ago. Amazing museum.

Link (new window)

xsarien		2012-03-17 08:12:39 PM

big_pth		2012-03-17 08:21:10 PM

Those are flying cars, douchebag. The flying car isn't a joke, or a driveable plane or a volkswagon with wings. IT IS A CAR THAT FLIES.

Weenie_Boy		2012-03-17 08:40:21 PM

This guy thought it was reasonably well done....
i283.photobucket.com

plumbicon		2012-03-17 08:59:45 PM

big_pth: Those are flying cars, douchebag. The flying car isn't a joke, or a driveable plane or a volkswagon with wings. IT IS A CAR THAT FLIES.

The Terrafugia isn't a flying car. It's a roadworthy aircraft. Changeover from flight mode to road mode can be done from inside the cockpit in a minute or so. It can be flown with a Sport Pilot license, like what an ultralight needs.

Trouble is, most drivers can barely handle traffic in two dimensions, let alone three.
If nothing else, flying cars may lead to thinning of the herd.

Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy		2012-03-17 09:10:54 PM

plumbicon: It can be flown with a Sport Pilot license, like what an ultralight needs.

Ultralights don't need a license. Not part 103 legal ones, anyway.

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