What's Wrong With This Picture: Freebird Edition
Published: March 18th, 2009
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What's wrong with it is that we were all supposed to have flying cars by now. Where is my 1950s' future and when do we start wearing the tinfoil?
What's wrong is that an 800 pound 100 horsepower fully enclosed vehicle could potentially be a really bitchin' car if all it tried to do was be a car!
I'd bet it's pretty safe as a road-car... all CF construction and a chassis rigid enough for flight... it should be. All air-cars are compromises. This one seems to deal with them a bit better than its predecessors... probably thanks to new materials and engineering available nowadays. It doesn't have to be a terrific car... it just has to be able to fit in the garage and drive itself to the airport for launch... this will probably be marketed as a recreational flyer that you don't have to rent out hangar space to store or even buy aviation fuel for... and, let's face it... if you're rich enough to buy one, it'd make a great conversation piece as you drive down to the gas station before a flight. The big question mark is performance in the air... that's something I'd like to see, when it's done.
What's wrong? I say it's the design of the 1973-era-NHTSA-5-mph-bumper-inspired canard wing...