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[Gizmodo: announcements, best of gizmodo 211038'php] DARPA Takes a Crack at the Flying Car - Darpa - Gizmodo: The flying car, a goal of starry-eyed engineers since at least the beginning of the last century, is getting the DARPA treatment. Called Transformer TX, this flying Humvee-like prototype could be airborne by 2015.

[Pclaptop-Reviews] » DARPA Looks to Make a Flying CarPclaptop-Reviews: Latest ...: The Defense Department agency DARPA is developing the Transformer (TX) vehicle, the world’s first true flying car.

[IdeaConnection :: Inventions & Innovations] Interesting New Products and Inventions: DARPA Working Towards ...: DARPA is working on a flying car called Transformer TX, which is a flying Humvee-like prototype and could beairborne by 2015.

[Popular Science - Technology] DARPA Spills Details on its Plans for the Transformer TX Flying ...: I suspect DARPA to be more pragmatic and less pie-in-the-sky, utilizing technologies and proven airframes that already exist. Something akin to the aforementioned Terrafugia Transition could, in my mind, be beefed up to accommodate a larger power package (jet assist) allowing it a shorter take-off requirement in combat situations.

[Untitled] DARPA announces plans for self-piloted flying car: Last week, DARPA announced that it is inviting proposals to tackle its latest project: “a vertical takeoff and landing roadable air vehicle.” The ground-to-sky vehicle, called Transformer X (TX), should have a maximum payload capacity of 1,000 pounds so that it can carry four passengers and their gear.

[Intelligent Energy Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] DARPA challenge to America: build flying car - SmartPlanet: Now that Popular Science and Mechanics, both paragons of truth, justice, poor journalism and propaganda outlets supreme for anydamnthing the DARPA dreams up let's look back on 80 or so years of drive/fly boondoggles and/or fanciful ideas that JohnQ will ever be ready or capable of such. Firstly, when you try to make one machine do two radically different functions they, by design actually, do neither well.

[Space For All - The HobbySpace Log] Sci-Tech: DARPA's Transformer (TX) flying car project: DARPA, US Marines team on proper flying car project: Blade Runner style sky-buggy Humvee/Jeep/Prius combo - The Register - Apr.17.10 /-- DARPA at work on 'Transformer TX', a proper flying car: Morphing' robo hover-Prius to run on 'ring .

[Tehranpi.net] DARPA's flying car: half Humvee, half helicopter | Tehranpi.net: The plan right now calls for something that could be quite a bit larger than a regular Humvee, no larger than 30 feet in length and about nine feet wide, with the ability to travel 250 miles on a single tank of gas and reach altitudes of 10,000 feet. It’s also supposed to be “at least as quiet as a conventional automobile”

[Ecofriend] DARPA's 'Transformer TX' Program Is A Flying Vehicle For The ...: DARPA's anticipated “Transformer TX” program is aimed at developing a flying car for the military that will have a vertical-takeoff system. The vehicle will handle like an off-road-capable SUV on the ground and can cruise like a .

[Techno Media Blog] DARPA announces plans for self-piloted flying car | Techno Media Blog: (PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, DARPA announced that it is inviting proposals to tackle its latest project: "a vertical takeoff and landing roadable air vehicle." The ground-to-sky vehicle, called Transformer X (TX), should have a maximum payload capacity of 1,000 pounds so that it can carry four passengers and their gear. It should also be capable of flying itself automatically, achieving an altitude of 1,000 feet, and traveling 250 miles on a single tank of fuel.

[Olebox - Shaun Oleson] DARPA Takes a Crack at the Flying Car [Darpa]: The flying car, a goal of starry-eyed engineers since at least the beginning of the last century, is getting the DARPA treatment. Called Transformer TX, this flying Humvee-like prototype could be airborne by 2015.

[Rajaten's Blog] DARPA announces plans for self-piloted flying car « Rajaten's Blog: The robustness and ease of operation would be essential for various military missions that DARPA has in mind for the TX. For instance, this “sky jeep” could fly over the minefields and roadside bombs that typically surround US bases in Afghanistan or other war territories, and then land to carry out a ground patrol, which requires stopping to set up checkpoints and other ground-based tasks.

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[CY.TALK News Blog] DARPA kick-starts flying car program: Day Workshop in support of a flying car program it will begin this year known as the Transformer (TX).  The goal of the TX will be to build a flying vehicle that will let military personnel avoid water, difficult terrain, and road obstructions as well as IED and ambush threats by driving and flying when necessary.

[Blog Me!] DARPA Kick-Starts Flying Car Program: coondoggie writes to share that DARPA is finally trying to make good on the promise of flying cars for our future with the new “Transformer” (TX) project. “DARPA said the vehicle will need to be able to drive on prepared surface and .

[Corado Blog] DARPA Kick-Starts Flying Car Program: coondoggie writes to stocks that DARPA is trying to finally make good on the promise of flying cars to our future with the new "Transformer" (TX) project. "Said DARPA, the vehicle must be able, on a prepared surface and light from .

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