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  Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 5:40pm

  
  

  personal helicopter traffic -- ugh!

  as always the real problem with flying cars is the air traffic. drivers can barely handle 2D traffic, 3D traffic would be horrible.

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  Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:22pm

  
  

  Re: personal helicopter traffic -- ugh!

  all traffic is 3d traffic, unless we're talking about some kind of device to exclude the third dimension.
  
  In any case, its 2012, where the fuck is my flying car already. the least we could get is a hoverboard.

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  Joe, 18 Jun 2012 @ 9:52pm

  
  

  Icon A5

  As personal aircraft go, it doesn't get sexier than the Icon A5.
  
  www.iconaircraft.com
  
  fold back wings, dual water/ land takeoff and landing and a price point of about 140k which while not cheap in the real world - in the world of aircraft, it's hella cheap.

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  Michael Ho (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 12:20am

  
  

  Re: Icon A5

  Yup, we covered the Icon A5 a while ago:
  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100330/1550518796/dailydirt-cool-new-planes.shtml
  
  It's a bit amazing that so many kinds of personal aircraft designs exist...

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  drew (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 11:56pm

  
  

  Flynano

  Looks like it's technically a wing-in-ground effect vehicle rather than a plane, but it's still very cool.

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  maclypse (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:03am

  
  

  Nano Website says "Patent Pending".
  
  What part(s) do you think they are patenting? The weird wing does display an uncanny resemblance to the McGinnis wing.
  
  http://www.synergyaircraft.com/

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  Hephaestus (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 2:15am

  
  

  Recommended design upgrade for the E-Volo copter

  Looking at the images of the design quad + copter they are planning. They should put leading and trailing edges on the support frame. ie shape them like a wing to add lift while in forward motion.

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  Wolfger, 19 Jun 2012 @ 2:55am

  
  

  Need a solution?

  Quit being lazy and ride a bike. It never runs out of fuel, never pollutes, and is good for you, too.

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  Dementia (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 8:59am

  
  

  If you haven't heard about it already, you might want to take a look at the hoverbike. http://www.hover-bike.com/index.html

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  Michael Ho (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 12:48pm

  
  

  Re:

  We also covered the hoverbike...
  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110518/18051114329/dailydirt-odd-vehicles.shtml
  
  The hoverbike looks cool, but somehow also more dangerous than the volocopter VC1. The hoverbike doesn't look like it's meant to really fly too far off the ground, but it still lacks a bit of rotor redundancy.

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  Richard, 20 Jun 2012 @ 8:58pm

  
  

  Building one's own "air car"

  In the October 1974 issue of Boys' Life magazine, on page 70, there was a mail order ad whereby a reader could obtain for US$3.00 plans for an "air car." Among other things, the air car could lift "up to 200 pounds." (Or, for those using the metric system, approximately 90.71 kg.) In a 1998 issue of Zillions magazine (which was like Consumer Reports but with kids testing toys and similar items), a review was done wherein Zillions mail ordered plans for an "air car" and had a 9-year-old kid build the project with his father to see how well it actually worked.

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