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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-30-2001 02:13 AM
I just saw a news article on the car of the future - one that will fly. OOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKK............ As far as the highway is concerned, there are so many dilrods that should not have a driver's license in the first place. Flying cars? I can see it now - hundreds of thousands of cars flying through the air, with an equal number of mid-air collisions. If highly trained aircraft pilots can't stay out of each other's way, I think we will be in a very interesting time of history when the average joe blow that doesn't know his backside from two bits is put in the cockpit of a flying car. Then I wonder where they are going to land that damn thing. Parking spaces are almost impossible to find now.
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-30-2001 03:26 AM
Hey! (_!B!_), Joe!  I am in the middle of navy aircraft bounce pattern now as it is. All they do is make noise, including pissing hydraulic fluid and jet fuel all over the windshields of my cars. I don't need a 1939 flying Buick adding to it. That's worse than a 500 pound seagull.
I wish I had a diarrhea machine that was capable through osmosis of causing the pilots to develop a screaming case of the shizeling drits and could not make it to the bathroom. Then, nobody would want to fly that aircraft again. Maybe there would be some peace and quiet around here then...
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Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-30-2001 08:10 AM
Was the article about some guy named Mosser (sp?). If so, he's been trying to promote flying cars for years. I remember seeing articles about him in the early 1970s. He apparently gets enough investors interested that he can continue his "research" and make a good living besides. He always is "just on the verge of going into production" and spinning off promotional material. After twenty years of hearing his hype, my personal opinion is that the guy is a huckster and snake-oil salesman.FWIW, I've seen a couple of flying cars at the big transportation museum in Denver and elsewhere. The one with the trailer in back for the wings looked like it would be a pain in the butt. There was another made of plywood that looked like someone had taken a section of wing, chopped it off at 8' width and added a windshield and propeller. According to the display, it actually flew and the inventor used it for a while. I don't count the auto-gyros that were promoted during the early days of helicopters, but some of those could be considered flying cars. The name of that museum was the Forney Museum, ( www.forneymuseum.com ). I highly recommend it for anyone interested in trasportation. There is one of the big challenger locomotives on display, tons of autos including steam cars, horse drawn wagons and carriages, and a bunch of other exhibits. The web page sucks, but when I saw the museum in 1992 at the old building the collection was friggin' amazing.
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 03-31-2001 01:32 AM
Paul, I saw a tv show that spoke of the same thing. My first thought was, that'll never work because no one would observe traffic patterns. Heck, they blow past stop signs now! Anyway, there are too many morons on the road for this to ever come true.That's all you'd need, is some idiot coming up from under and crashing into you. Or from above. The show later concluded, as I did almost immediately, that it could never work for these reasons. ------------------
Better Projection Pays!
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