Gearlog : A Flying SUV by 2009?
This may look like a plane, but it’s actually a conceptual design of a flying SUV from the minds of talented grad students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Terrafugia, a general aviation, manufacturing company, is working with the students on what is called, the Transition Personal Air Vehicle (PAV).
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That is all we need, flying SUV’s driven by cell phone talking, make-up applying soccer moms.
Was the course titled “find a way to get worse gas mileage from your SUV?”
I want one! (or more). You’ve got take the next step and make them VTOL to really have something though.
If these really take off, I will stop sleeping above grade.
Won’t happen in our lifetime.
lol they’ve been pitching this for years.. I think the general populace is too stupid to make these much more than a novelty…(if they can get one to work properly ) don’t confuse being too stupid with being incapable.. maybe in a hundred years.. If suddenly there were 1000’s of these on the market there would be some issues.. but I dont think Cessna is sweating it quite yet..the Faa either..
Coming to a trailor park near you!
just what I needed. Flying SUVs crashing into each other and then plummeting to earth, right on top of a hospital, school or church.
An SUV that takes up more space on the freeway. Great.
I’ve been waiting for this all my life. LETS GO!
Finally, a way to make SUVs more expensive, more dangerious, and more in need of regular service.
And more stupid.