Ok I keep asking and asking, where is my flying car, then I look at videos like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHJBvtr0H-E&feature=related
And again I ask where is my flying car? Just seens like a waste, I mean if nothing else can this tech be use to help firefighters with very tall buildings?
Put 4 of these babys on a whatever you can dream up, and I bet it can get it wher eis needs to go. After all this tech is over 30 years or more old, and I am sure there is something better they can make. Just takes money and someone willing to dream up the ideas.
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The military discontinued the X-Jet project many years ago because it was a flying coffin. Highly unstable, very limited range, and most importantly, even under ideal circumstances when it could be balanced vertically, it would start to rotate if it stayed stationary, making it useless as a shooting or observation platform. It can't actually do any of the things described in that propaganda film - it's top speed was actually around 30 miles an hour, to 70, and its range was measured in the tens of yards, not miles. The contractor claimed the final product could, but made no progress getting there from the deathtrap prototypes.
Scaling it up made all of its problems even worse. The Avrocar was its vehicle sized version of the same technology, and was prone to flipping over, spinning uncontrollably, and oscillating until the pilot threw up or lost consciousness. At least the Avrocar could be kept stable as long as it was less than a few feet over the ground and kept the landing wheels extended to touch the ground, but then that pretty much defeated the whole concept of flying and you're left with a standard car that burns five gallons of jet fuel per mile.