One of my pet peeves is when people complain about how they live in the future, but they have not gotten a flying car yet. Frankly, the way most people drive, I’m not too excited about the idea of a whole new dimension—up—being added to the equation. And if lots of people had them, fossil fuel use would probably go through the roof (no pun initially intended, but I am pleased with it and it will stay.) In any case, I am here to tell you, citizens of the future, that your flying car is here:
The seed of this improbable adventure was sown four years ago when Gilo Cardozo, a paramotor manufacturer, had a eureka moment. For those not familiar with paramotors, picture a parachutist with a giant industrial fan strapped to his back, which provides forward motion and boosts lift for the parachute – or wing – during takeoff. Cardozo’s brainwave was to attach a car to the fan.
“I started making a paramotor on wheels that you sit on and take off and it suddenly occurred to me, ‘Why not just have a car that does everything?’” recalls Cardozo, whose Wiltshire-based company Parajet built the paramotor that the adventurer Bear Grylls used to fly near Everest last year.
That’s for wankers. I want one of the Jetsons’ cars.
i was hoping for something a little more “Bladerunner” than “Banana Splits”…
No, no, no. Flying cars are for wankers. I was promised a JET PACK.
I was promised a world without disease or hunger. Look at this hangnail! Where’s my cookie?
I’ll just leave this here.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-1008…
A crucial element of all my flying car/ jet-pack fantasies is that I am the only person that has one.
At first, I thought that flying car was really Sid and Marty Krofft’s famous WONDERBUG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQnnZOJSl…
I’ve ridden in a powered parachute, looks like the same thing. Great fun, if not very ecologically sound. There’s a group up in Arlington that flies them out of the ultralight airport there. You can get an hour’s ride and a piloting lesson for a hundred bucks.
http://seattlepowerchutes.com/default.as…
Fnarf’s right, they did promise us jetpacks.
And not the ones that stop working after a quarter-mile.
I want a flying car in the form of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Look, people, we are halfway to living in a science fiction movie anyway now, what with President Inspirational Black Man, so please, be patient in regards to your Cold Fusion – Powered Flying Car.