USAF to Launch Search for Flying Cars This Month

[Robert59]

The Air Force will kick off its effort to encourage the development of flying cars with a virtual launch event featuring product presentations and government briefings from April 27 to May 1.

Known as “Agility Prime,” the initiative aims to support private companies that are pursuing the next great creation in air transportation. The Air Force is offering funds and testing resources to vendors with designs for “advanced air mobility vehicles” that can be used for missions from medical evacuation to installation security to disaster relief.

https://www.airforcemag.com/usaf-to..._term=Editorial - Military - Early Bird Brief

 

[Gaer]

My son designed one but he didn't get a patent on it. He said it's a waste of time because anyone can just tweek the design slighty and they own it. I think there are a lot of designs out there which are about the same thing.

 

[In The Sticks]

I read the article but am not sure what they are going for.

By "flying car" do they mean that you drive on the road, then fly, then land and drive on the road again? Or do they merely want a non-aerodynamic plane? They speak of replacing the Osprey, which is aircraft-only.

All those years living outside the DC area, and I still cannot decipher the gobbledygook.

 

[Manatee]

There is a flying car in the Boeing museum up near Seattle.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

A flying car sounds cool, but they have problems. If they need a runway to get off the ground, it limits their usefulness. How many people carry a spare runway in their back pockets? If it needs wings, or huge rotors to fly, and all planes do, what do you with them on the ground? All the flying cars, so far, have been automobiles types with strap on wings and propellers. People have been trying to merge cars and planes for decades, the best solution so far is the helicopter.