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Tesla unveils new Roadster that can fly
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It would be nice on their budget to not have to "Wreck a Stunt Car" every time they do a Turbo Boost.
Yeah, that was just to show off the new feature. But unless you drive off a building top, get plowed off an overpass, or take a leap off a cliff, it's highly unlikely you'll over find cursed roads to fly off of. Not even if Hot Wheels built them.
SpeedRacer got there first
When I heard about this and saw the clip, the first thing I thought of was, surely they'll use this in James Bond?
That gets you the suction system and Aft Thrusters for 0-60 in < 1 second.
The Rocket System is "Invite Only", so don't expect to jump your Tesla Roadster or have it land softly after falling from very high up.
This is, no doubt going to go incredibly comedically wrong.
Unfortunately, lives will be lost in this shitshow.
Actually, the late 1940s. Back in the 1970s, I was given (for want of any other reading material) the then-current issue of AirProgress magazine, and it had an article (somehow, I failed to notice that it was about something that came and went decades earlier) on the Taylor Aerocar. A sub-subcompact with a Lycoming aviation engine, and brackets (and power-takeoff) for wings and a pusher-propeller tail boom. You'd have to drive to an airport, mount the wings and tail-boom, and taxi to a runway. I saw one at the Museum of Flight, near SeaTac Airport, and according to the referenced Wikipedia article, there's till one street-legal, airworthy, Aerocar left in existence.
And @Christopher, your line reminds me of the old Truman-Capote-ism, "That's not writing, that's typing." (Which is a line I have never had any inclination to apply to any opus of yours.)
Here in Cincinnati, we used to have a book/movie/TV critic who often referred to "famed typist Harold Robbins." I guess he swiped it from Capote.
But I wasn't being clever, I was addressing the literal definition of flight, which controlled descent is not. It's only flight if the craft has enough lift to sustain or increase altitude under its own power, and only if it gets high enough off the ground to do so entirely through interaction with the air, rather than through ground effect. (By that definition, even the Wright Brothers' first "flight" wasn't technically flight.)
Bond wouldn't be caught dead in a Tesla.
There's a first time for everything, and it doesn't mean he has to like it.
so it'll be used by the villain to make sure Bond is caugt dead in a tesla.
Problem being, is today's FAA something that you consider the most reliable thing to be thorough when you-know-who? is running the US government.
Not necessarily, although that's not a bad idea. I was thinking more along the lines that it's the only option available where the mission sends him, so he grudgingly uses it, and it would end up being along the lines of the submersible car, ie very sci-fi oriented.
so the not the new 2CV.
i knew there was at least one "attach stuff to the car and turn it into a plane" type dealie, but that isn't really what i think of when i think "flying car". i was thinking more like the army's ducted-fan jeeps and some vectored-thrust vehicle prototypes and related projects which were about the footprint of a largish car; and the guy, moller, i think, who was involved in some of those projects who was trying to develop commercial versions for years.
i vaguely recall seeing the aerocar in a movie, possibly a bond, where he just sort of happens upon one in a barn at the end of a protracted chase sequence?
yep used by scaramanga in Man with the Golden Gun.
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