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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:07 am 
Carl Dietrich, 29, MIT graduate student has invented a flying car-
SUV-sized model, PAV (personal air vehicle). The car could be on the market by 2009.
Estimated cost: $148,000.

The PAV has folding wings to operate o n the ground and in the air. It carries two passengers (plus luggage) and gets up to 500 miles on a tank of premium unleaded gasoline. It can fly at speeds up to 130 mph. Operators must be licensed as sport pilots. (A 20-hour course costs about $3,500.)

Check it out at:
http://www.Terrafugia.com


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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:15 pm 
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This sounds cool. But I'm curious as to how a vehicle of that size would function on the roads?


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this thing will sit in a museum somewhere as a failed concept.

but I wouldn't mind having me one, to avoid all this traffic.


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Yuvan wrote:
this thing will sit in a museum somewhere as a failed concept.

but I wouldn't mind having me one, to avoid all this traffic.


yup , but in one day our grand may be great grand kids might get hands on this to re discover working version of this in full like living in featurama!


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PAV has folding wings


Yuvan can you shed some light on this? :lol:


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JamesBond007 wrote:
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PAV has folding wings


Yuvan can you shed some light on this? :lol:


haha. maybe they are reffering to the discrete Kumara Anjaneyanumaan :lol:


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Yuvan wrote:
JamesBond007 wrote:
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PAV has folding wings


Yuvan can you shed some light on this? :lol:


haha. maybe they are reffering to the discrete Kumara Anjaneyanumaan :lol:



Oh, I see.... :P


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