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New Hampshire legalizes flying cars — 9 Comments

  1. Hate to break it to them, but the FAA controls all US airspace and certification of all airframes and pilots…

  2. Flying Luddite:

    The vehicles will be required to take off and land at airfields and I’m pretty sure they need to follow all the rules for aviation in the US. The advantage, supposedly, is that then they can drive away on the roads.

  3. Well, the US DOT regulates and certifies all road going vehicles, so that is a bit of a challenge.

    Flying cars used to be really attractive way back in the day, as ground transportation at a remote airport (i.e. one of the best reasons to fly a private airplane) was often difficult to find or nonexistent (I actually rented a car from a used car dealer about 15 years ago since there was no car rental or taxi service there. Uber has done away with that problem.

  4. With many of us living in something of a covid-induced time warp these days, I thought I’d do well to check my calendar to see if we’re still in April.

    Nope, this is *not* one of neo’s April Fool’s Day posts . . .

    August 7th — how’d *that* happen??

  5. For this one:

    https://terrafugia.com/transition/

    …you need at minimum a Sport Pilot certificate….restrictions on this certificate include no night flying, and visual conditions only. Can’t operate for compensation or hire, or “in furtherance of a business.”

    I’d worry about driving a $200K aircraft on the public roads, where all kinds of minor accidents could happen and could impact its airworthiness.

  6. OK, if it must take off and land at an airport, how, really, is it a “flying car” and not a plane with fold-away wings?

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