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Re:Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!) by stretchwithme on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @08:26PM (#2562422)
His focus is on serving the third world. It is clear in the video you need a runway and you don't have one when stuck in traffic. Or probably the room you need to deploy the wing.

I think he should play up the fact that this takes off with half the speed Marty McFly would need to turn on his flux capacitor.

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Re:Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!) by Zak on Thursday May 19, 2011 @12:00AM (#2562830)
It is clear in the video you need a runway

He said it could take off from a football field and clear the stanchions. It evidently needs a 300 foot unpaved field and a bit of space around it without anything exceedingly tall. That's pretty good performance, and you can get by with a lot less than a proper runway, but it can't take off from a traffic jam.

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