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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:15 pm Post subject: everybody who wants one raise your hand
both hands way up, a new roadable autogyro www.engadget.com/2012/...en-flight/ _________________ The only good skwerril is a dead un

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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:33 pm
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Demmit!
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: everybody who wants one raise your hand
That is way cool..... But I bet you have to live in the big house to own one _________________ You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3

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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:57 pm
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The "flying car" will never see the light of day...and not for technical reasons.

Regulatory agencies (lke say, the U.S. FAA) are not particularly fond of general aviation for all sorts of reasons now (workload, risk, pilot proficiency, etc.). Governments in general will never approve of a significant expansion of airworthy vehicles and air traffic for all of the reasons above, plus a few others (security among them). An increase in GA traffic (or however one wants to define this) will never be tolerated and will either be legislated out of existence (if the technical means were to exist) or requirementsregulations made so onerous so as to accomplish the same thing.

There will be no families of Jetsons zipping around the countryside and those with the means to participate in GA will still want aircraft of a capacity greater than a dual purpose vehicle (with it's road crashworthiness issues) can ever provide. Weight will be no small factor here, to say nothing of a general hostility on the part of governments and a pretty good cross-section of the population.

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:42 am Post subject: Re: everybody who wants one raise your hand
party pooper _________________ The only good skwerril is a dead un

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:20 am
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I hope it doesn't.
Imagine all the eejits you see on the roads today, in the air.
And the potential security implications.

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:41 pm
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- Shades

I hope it doesn't.
Imagine all the eejits you see on the roads today, in the air.
And the potential security implications.

That right there is the reason it will never become mainstream. The masses can't operate a car with four wheels on the ground safely most of the time so once the vehicle leaves the ground it will only make the problem that much worse.

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: everybody who wants one raise your hand
- piney party pooper Mr Ascout...........let us dream a little before waking us up with Uncle Sam butting in. On the other hand there are a lot of idiots driving around _________________ You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3

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