[DeTomaso] NPT Boeing Flying Car?

[Ken Green]

Mike,
   
      I haven't done the math for years, but I thought that any airborne vehicle which hovers using downward thrust takes a LOT of power, and that the reason airplane work is the Bernoulli effect of air flowing over the longer upper surface of the wing to reduce pressure and get lift.  Wouldn't it take a LOT of fuel to make keep something like this off the ground?
   
      I'd think that if it ever made it off the ground, they'd post pictures.
   
  Ken

Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net> wrote:
  Not a Boeing flying car, but supposedly designed by Boeing engineers. It's
the first I've seen of it, and makes me think of the Moller concept.

http://www.moller.com/m400.htm

Great idea, wonder if they'll ever work.

Mike Thomas

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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:55 AM
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Subject: [DeTomaso] NPT Boeing Flying Car?

Is this real?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/The-last-Concept-Sky-Commuter-aircraft-in-Exi
stence_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ26428QQihZ012QQitemZ220188946461

All the pictures show it sitting on the ground, a little suspicious?

Ken
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