Mazda Rotary Engine "Flying Car"

Apr 5, 2007 | 03:58 PM

Old Rotor

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Mazda Rotary Engine "Flying Car"

Check this out!! What do you think...is it the future??

http://news.com.com/2300-11389_3-617...tag=ne.gall.pg

Apr 5, 2007 | 04:06 PM

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Nope, it's the past not the future. Funky though.

Apr 5, 2007 | 04:49 PM

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Your probably right we will want a jet engine. Here is another on it...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...p?vidId=131844

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Apr 5, 2007 | 04:55 PM

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It would be a scary though if there were flying cars. There are so many dumb asses out there . If you survive the accident in the air you wont survive when you hit the ground.

Apr 5, 2007 | 08:24 PM

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moving in 3 dimensions is waaaay more complicated than moving in 2. The only way to have a widely used flying vehicle would be to have a compute fly it.

Even if it looks like a car it will still fly like a plane, in fact because it is less aerodynamic and doesn't seem to have the extended hardened landing gear of a plane it seems it would be much harder to take off, fly, and land.