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Terrefugia

By lex, on March 18th, 2009

Hmm…

5000 feet is a pretty darn long take-off roll.

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March 18th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Flying

12 comments to Terrefugia

  • OldT6Flyer
    March 18, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    I saw the takeoff and it looked like it was stuck in ground effect. The pictures at altitude were stills making me wonder just how long it took and how high it actually was off the ground.

    This is a concept that keeps dreamers dreaming but never has overcome the trade-offs that lead to a car that isn’t very good as a car and an airplane that is even worse as an airplane.

    But its better to read about this than whatever the latest abomination is from DC.

  • Byron
    March 18, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Bet the lift slides off the wings real easy.

  • G-man
    March 18, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    Can a home catapult launch system be far behind?

    A year from now we’ll see Billy Mayfair hucking these things for 4 easy payments of $1999.00.

    • virgil xenophon
      March 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm

      G-Man/

      You mentioning “Billy” reminds me of my idea of my very own perfect Hell: Chained to a stair-master with eye-lids cut off, doomed to forever watch alternating rounds of “Riverdance,” “Cats,” every Celine Dion performance ever given, plus every commercial Billy Mays has ever done–all while listening to everything Kenny G and Michael Bolton have ever recorded on an endless loop. If you can think of anything worse–don’t bother to tell me–I’m depressed enough at my own prospects as it is…

  • Bill K.
    March 18, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Can you imagine the polizei trying to arrest a speeder in one of these?

  • geo6
    March 18, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Hey, my stomping grounds! BTW, two mile runway at Plattsburg AFB/In’tl, approx 150 ft MSL and the ambient temps are probably 38 F? What’s it going to do in 90 F heat in Colorado?

  • Wilko
    March 18, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    -can you imagine driving this to to pick up groceries? I wouldn’t want anything that isn’t dedicated to flying when flying has enough inherent risk.

    The idea isn’t new either. The “airphibian” ConvAair car was introduced in 1946 and in 1949 the Aerocar was invented. You can still see it at the EAA musuem in Oshkosh. 60 years later the dream lives on, and I suspect that’s what it will remain.

  • Humble1310
    March 18, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Interesting concept, turd-like execution from the looks of it.

    Needs more power and probably a bigger wing…

  • USMAUSMC
    March 18, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    This will probably be at EAA Oshkosh Airventure this summer……

    Lex, not a bad place to shop for things with wings.

  • Dbl D
    March 18, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    My old stomping grounds also. Spent many an hour on that flight line back in the heyday of SAC. Kc-97′s, B-47e’s, and KC-135′s.

    • Advokaat
      March 18, 2009 at 5:54 pm

      My old stomping grounds as well…literally…I pulled security there for SAC FB-111′s and KC-135′s.

      Yessir, it was on Plattsburgh’s flight line that I learned the meaning of the phrase, “Cold as HELL”.

  • Lee
    March 19, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    I don’t fly, but I have to wonder; what happens when you get a sizeable ding from a grocery cart at Safeway/Vons when your out and about doing your daily? Does that potentially have an impact on the flyability of the craft? I can’t help but wonder what the marrying of objects at completely opposite spectrums of the maintenance plan in most peoples garage mixes with the “it’ll make it to the store” mentality of your daily drivers ride? I don’t know much ’bout them flying machines, but, I’m pretty sure you fly boys keep pretty meticulus records of maintenance events on your machines… right?. Quite a dichotomy with your average grocery wagon. Lets marry up an M1 Abrams with my boat next, shall we?
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