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Flying Car Takes High Road To Timbuktu

A flying car devised by a British inventor and a team of engineers took off from London on Wednesday on an epic journey to Timbuktu, Mali, in West Africa -- a trip they hope will prove the fantasy has become reality.

  • Mr.Farts
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  • Date 1/15/2009 8:50:11 PM
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puffmax : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

puffmax

25 votes NegativePositive

297 days 3 hours ago...

Although it`s cool it`s just a big epic fail waiting to happen...

Needless_Kane : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Needless_Kane

21 votes NegativePositive

297 days 2 hours ago...

"Where we`re going, we don`t need roads!"
5/5 for the Doc!

69yacko : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

69yacko

51 votes NegativePositive

297 days 1 hour ago...

your gonna compare a nuclear powerd Doleran to a car with a kite attached to it ?

You just have to laff

The Living End : LVL 55: VP 5: said:

The Living End

10 votes NegativePositive

296 days 23 hours ago...

17 Miles per hour, or 70?

kyo121 : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

kyo121

4 votes NegativePositive

296 days 15 hours ago...

i think 70...i think not terribly fast but with a parachute you can`t go that fast and have it still function like a parachute anyway.

MaxPowers_00001 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

MaxPowers_00001

8 votes NegativePositive

296 days 13 hours ago...

hmm, the brits managed to make a car thats unappealing both on the ground and in the sky. Cheers!

TeflonMonkey : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

TeflonMonkey

4 votes NegativePositive

296 days 13 hours ago...

Ah but the Delorean represents the flying cars of the time that the doc went to . The time machine never needed to fly, it did so it could blend into the time they where gonna be hanging in in back to the future 2. right? the flying cars of the future where they nuclear?

RockGuitarist309 : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

RockGuitarist309

11 votes NegativePositive

296 days 12 hours ago...

Sigh...I was very intreagued when I read the title of this article and even more so when I saw the Back to the Future reference...only to be dissapointed by a car touting a large fan and parachute... Sweeeeet, now all of us desert dwellers can fly a few feet of the ground at a slow speed proving to be just slightly above absolutely useless.

fireburner12 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

fireburner12

0 votes NegativePositive

296 days 11 hours ago...

thats great but all this stuff still runs on gasoline. Show me a flying jet car or whatever (similar to the other vid as well) and have it run on a new fuel source, and that will be the deciding factor for me. Air cars are cool, but not when gas is going to be so high.

swords : LVL 45: VP 5: said:

swords

6 votes NegativePositive

296 days 8 hours ago...

we were promised flying cars in the 60`s. It`s now almost 50 years later and all we got was this POS buggy with fan.

Xman8 : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Xman8

1 votes NegativePositive

296 days 2 hours ago...

I thought we were punk`d for a moment with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Tackleho : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Tackleho

5 votes NegativePositive

296 days 1 hour ago...

One unfortunate gust of wind from the side will blow his engineer dreams into the sea...........

irishkreme : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

irishkreme

1 votes NegativePositive

296 days 1 hour ago...

I would rather have a 1981 Delorean.

daver18qc : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

daver18qc

0 votes NegativePositive

295 days 19 hours ago...

I dont know about you guys, but i`m pretty sure i`ve seen this type of "flying car" before...

it`s called a PPC, or Powered ParaChute, here is a website with infos on this type of flying buggy:

http://www.all-about-powered-parachutes.com/faq.htm

and it`s been invented for about 5-6 years if i`m correct.

saltesc : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

saltesc

-1 votes NegativePositive

295 days 19 hours ago...

^ Dude, the copyright on their site is 2001-2008 lol... so could very well be 8 years. This Brit is a wank.

TeflonMonkey,

Indeed they were nuclear. I remember the scene...

Marty: Doc! What are you doing?
Emett: I need fuel! -pours Pepsi into the "Mr. Fusion" reactor made by none other than Fusion Industries-

So kite = fail... especially in anything but clear weather. But no worries, according to Back To the Future II we`ll be there in 6 years from now :D

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