• Technology

    The Flying Car Gets Real

    By Gregory Mone Posted on 10.8.2008 45 Comments

    The Transition is not a flying car. The vehicle, set to go on sale next year, will cruise smoothly on the road and through the sky. It will have four wheels, Formula One–style suspension, and a pair of 10-foot-wide wings that fold up when it switches from air to asphalt. And when the engineers at Terrafugia in Woburn, Massachusetts, let me sit inside their just-finished proof-of-concept vehicle and grab the steering wheel, it’s easy to imagine piloting this thing up and out of traffic, into the open skies.

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    10.11.2008 at 02:16am - Comment by cmiamt

    I have to say this is the first viable design of a roadable aircraft, and I think these MIT engineers will be making history at the end of 2009.

  • Technology

    A Top Gun Weekend

    By Posted on 4.29.2008 7 Comments

    Last weekend, PopSci traveled to Lakeland, Florida, to watch Mike Selby's 5.5-to-1 scale model A-10 Warthog—star of our recent feature story— compete in Top Gun, an invitation-only event that is effectively the world championship of experimental radio-controlled aircraft. Selby's team includes pilot Raymond Johns, an Air Force test pilot and three-star general; pit crew/logistician Bill Davidson, who is the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the US Air Force; and Bangkok jet-engine builder Pornchai "Hard Porn" Saechour.

    5.16.2008 at 12:25pm - Comment by cmiamt

    I was disappointed to learn Mike Selby and his team didn't win the Top Gun title......I am so impressed by the performance of their A-10, if there were no one nearby to gauge the scale of the airplane you would have thought it was the actual plane doing a fly-by. I know building a kit RC plane is challenging, but knowing Selby built his baby from scratch is mind blowing!



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