Category Transportation

Terrafugia is working on a flying car, the TF-X.  The carbon-fiber vehicle takes off vertically using an electric-powered rotor blade mounted on each side. Then, once it is in the air, the rotor blades rotate forward and fold in and a…

The Moller M400 Skycar has always been my favourite skycar, ever since 1st year Mechanical engineering. It’s promising design and unique Rotapower engines looked like Mollar would finally reach his goal. Since then, there hasn’t been much progress published, although…

open.NASA is a great site.  There is a published Data API and code.NASA has been recently made open source. Very cool!  It would be great if some new insights come about by this public collaborative approach from NASA.

Complaints of the non-existence of flying cars have become nearly idiomatic as expressions of disappointment in the failure of the present to measure up to the optimism of past predictions.   Calvin puts it well.. it’s a new decade, where…