The flying car, sci-fi movies have all dreamed up some form of it. From the Jetson’s little cartoon car that makes that cute noise to the flying taxis of The 5th Element, everyone has dreamed of how cool it would be to scoot around in your personal flyer. Now that dream just may become reality in the next few years.
The biggest problem with flying vehicles is how can the population safely navigate all these vehicles without hitting each other or causing serious problems. The answer to that, not surprisingly, lies with NASA. They have developed a program called “the highway in the sky” and its purpose is to enable simple navigation of airplanes and other flying vehicles. For a great deal on a used car come see us!
Think of it as essentially a video game that flies a plane. The pilots have a screen with a plane in a box on it. Their job is to keep the plane inside the box, safely avoiding other vehicles and the plane’s auto pilot take you to where you want to be, even to a safe landing. The program can even help airline passengers planes navigate in bad weather or other unfavorable conditions.
Sure, you might think, we have the satellites, GPS and nice navigation systems, but what about the actual vehicles? Meet Woody Norris, inventor of the AirScooter, a personal flying machine that he hopes to have available for sale within the next year. If you are in Virginia and need a used car, come see our huge selection.
A small cockpit with a wide open view of everything around sits on what is essentially a helicopter with a set of counter spinning rotating blades. What looks like a set of motorcycle handle bars controls the machine. Push forward and the AirScooter moves forward, pull back and it moves back. It’s that simple.
The AirScooter can fly for up to 2 hours at a speed of around 55mph. It has a maximum ceiling of 10,000 feet and will only cost about $50,000 dollars. Not bad for a flying machine. To top things off, you don’t need a pilot’s license to fly under 400 feet in non-restricted space. So how serious is this? It is series enough that Norris recently won the Lemelson-MIT award. This award is a half-million dollar cash prize that goes to the top inventor of the year.
If you don’t like the AirScooter and can wait a little longer you might be able to purchase the SkyCar. In what is being described as a cross between a Ferrari and the Batmobile, this flyer has four rotary engines that can lift off and then tilt to propel it forward. It is being designed to travel at 300mph and up to 20,000 feet.
The SkyCar is still about 10 years away from being a reality, and with its potentially high price, high speed and high altitude it will primarily see early use in military, law enforcement and search and rescue type roles. Still the potential for mass consumer production is something that its creator Paul Moller envisions for his product someday.
So if you think you have seen it all, think again. The future is right around the corner and it’s on a highway to the sky.
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