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Where’s My Flying Car? Wednesday, October 11 3:30-4:30pm Dorothy Cochrane Curator, Aeronautics Department National Air and Space Museum Where’s My Flying Car? Retronaut; BBC; Aeromobil 2 A.H. Russell’s Machine, 1924 Retronaut 3 Ford Flivver Henry Ford wanted his tiny 1927 airplane—the Flivver—to equal the success of his Model T car. Charles Lindbergh declared it one of the worst airplanes he’d ever flown. Flying cars grew out of the flivver idea. But does the quest to combine cars and aircraft have a practical future? NASM 4 Stout Skycar Model II Another Ford design NASM 5 Waterman Aerobile, 1937-1957 This was the first aerocar to actually fly. In 1934, the director of the Bureau of Air Commerce posed a challenge: Design a “poor man’s” easy-to-fly airplane and sell it for $700. Big manufacturers dismissed it, but Waldo Waterman’s Arrowplane (and Fred Weick’s W-1A) won. NASM 6 Convair Model 118, 1947 7 Fulton Airphibian 1st certificated flying car, 1950 NASM; Fulton 8 5-Minute Transition NASM/Fulton 9 NASM 10 Robert Fulton Engineering the businessman’s dream NASM/Fulton 11 NASM/Fulton 12 Taylor Aerocar PilotFriend; Atomic Toasters 13 Terrafugia Transisiton and TF-X ™ Conceived by MIT graduate students, the Transition is a prototype light sport flying car with foldable wings. The light-sport category will ease the pilot requirements for the driver, but will it/TF-X meet its stated cruise speed of 200 mph (322 km/h)? And fit in the proverbial garage or parking space? Terrafugia 14 Aeromobil Aeromobil 15 Mark my words: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come. Henry Ford, 1940 Will new technologies finally succeed in this decades old quest? • Design • Power • Control: Pilot or Autonomous • Weight • Price • Airspace 16 .

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