That same wall hit by a flying car feels a similar in force.
To his credit, Dietrich has tried to set realistic expectations about what the flying car can and cannot do.
But a Jetsons-style flying car that can be piloted as easily as a family sedan still seems a long way off.
And when that project is finished, Cardoso wants to build flying car.
To that end, the HondaVac could wind up joining the Taxi of Tomorrow and the flying car in the New York show pantheon.
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Early summer sunshine flooded in on the desk where Frank Quitely worked, poring over an outlined image of Superman jumping from a helipad onto a flying car.
The Transition Roadable Aircraft, basically a flying car, recently received clearance from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate both on land and in the air.
First, let's set something straight: the Transition has many times been referred to as a "flying car" and we too have been guilty of this in the past.
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That's why it's practically absurd to assume anything at all will come from this new X-Hawk flying car, whose inventor, Rafi Yoeli, the founder of Urban Aeronautics, claims could ready for the market by 2010.
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Making high-rise rescues possible, along with urban airlifts and such makes this sound like a natural fit, and perhaps we'll get a little bit of trickle-down flying car action before 2035 when Duke Nukem finally ships.
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Terrafugia is subcontracting with AAI Corp. as part of the project launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an effort that is both ambitious and oddly less complicated in some ways compared with civilian flying car concepts.
We also saw greener transportation take to the skies as Finnair launched the world's longest biofueled commercial flight, Scaled Composites launched its bipod flying car, and the US Air Force announced plans to replace 50 percent of its domestic fuels with biofuels by 2016.
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This week Korean automaker Hyundai unveiled a multi-rotor flying electric car for congested cities and SolarWorld and PC-Aero announced plans to launch two new solar-powered electric airplanes at an air show in Germany.
"Everybody wanted to come and see him because the car crash was so horrific that they said if there was a fly flying around in that car that would not have survived, " he added.
Red and blue car flags are flying like gang colors.
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While sales of its Hornby model railway sets were broadly similar to the previous year, its new Brighton Belle five car set and Flying Scotsman locomotive had seen "notable success" it said.
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I'm not convinced by the flying-V character lines on the car's fuselage.
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Two members of a family of six were also badly injured when flying masonry hit them in the nearby car park of the Shrewsbury Hotel.
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At the racetrack a gleaming red car, which had been flying a large stars and stripes out of a back window is at the back of the pack, overtaken by all the others.
'Flying medics' can provide urgent medical assistance at car crashes, farming and industrial accidents.
Nash said Saturday night that she was flying first thing to Dallas, then renting a car and driving to Austin.
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Wreckage could be seen flying over the perimeter fence, and striking a car in front, and footage of the incident was widely used in news media.
Unlike the previous Flying Spur, which was essentially a stretched Continental GT, this car has been created from scratch and the Continental link has been severed.
With money earned from odd jobs, he took flying lessons and obtained his pilot's license even before he got a car license.
In fact, travelers are flying more and driving less, with the largest decreases in spending seen at car rental services for consumer and business groups.
We might not be able to navigate flying cars with smartphones just yet, but you can use smartphones to unlock the car door and even start some cars.
The car rides very smoothly, so much so that you almost feel like you are flying sometimes, especially when the top is down.
It made little sense to him to rent a car or buy a round-trip Amtrak ticket to get to Washington instead of simply flying where you want to go.
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