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[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.

[Digital Trends] DARPA Looks to Make a Flying Car: After all, the Humvee began as a military vehicle before reaching the private sector.  The proposed price tag also presents a problem. At the current estimated price of $55 million, even the wealthiest athletes and oil tycoons would be hard pressed to find room in the garage for the TX.

[Web Design Cool] Your Best Hope for a Flying Car? DARPA's Pitch for a Flying Humvee ...: If all goes well, DARPA expects to have a prototype ready by 2015. While the vehicle will initially be restricted to military use (what better way to creep up on your enemies?), we can envision the Jetsons-like day when civilians zoom around in hybrid electric flying cars.

[Crave: The gadget blog] DARPA wants a flying car | Military Tech - CNET News: The U.S. Department of Defense, in the form of its DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) division, is calling on the research community to create a flying vehicle that can travel both by land and air, lift off without a runway, carry up to four personnel, and handle itself in the battlefield.

[SEO | Search Engine Optimization | Web development] DARPA Takes a Crack at the Flying Car [Darpa] : SEO | Search ...: Click here to read DARPA Takes a Crack at the Flying Car. The flying car, a goal of starry-eyed engineers since at least the beginning of the last century, is getting the DARPA treatment.

[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”

[MobiiTech | Mobile Gadget & Technology] DARPA - a flying Humvee by US Marines | MobiiTech | Mobile Gadget ...: US military have unveiled full details of their plan to produce an excellent flying Humvee -jeep type vehicle – and have a prototype flying by 2015.

[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.

[Intelligent Energy Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] DARPA challenge to America: build flying car - SmartPlanet: On a single tank of JP-8 fuel, the hypothetical war machine will switch between flying and off-roading and execute combat maneuvers within a 250-mile range. The proposal envisioned technology along the lines of hybrid electric drive, advanced batteries, ducted fan propulsion systems and lightweight heavy fuel engines.

[Free Readings Online] Free Readings Online » Blog Archive » At Last, Flying Cars?: So it is gratifying to see that our good friends at DARPA are finally going to do something about it." The project is called Transformer TX. "The Government's envisioned concept consists of a robust ground vehicle that is capable of configuring into a VTOL air vehicle with a maximum payload capability of approximately 1,000 lbs.

[Ethonomics] DARPA Wants to Build Flying Cars, Fight Cosmo G. Spacely | Fast ...: By giving soldiers more flexibility, DARPA hopes that ground-based troops will be able to avoid an oncoming ambush by quickly taking to the skies in a vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and landing. A flying car could be the ultimate tactical advantage, allowing troops to take on the enemy where they least expect it.

[Automotive Blogs] Military looking into Flying Cars | Automotive.com Blog ...: Now the military is asking for a flying car. Through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the vehicle is to be a one-to-four seater capable of handling on and off road conditions as well as fly.

[Ares] DARPA's Transformer Hits the Road - Ares Homepage: Terrafugia has flown a proof-of-concept Transition and is now finalizing design of the production vehicle, with first deliveries planned for 2011. The two-seat Transition will be certificated as a light sport aircraft, which limits weight and speed, with additional features to meet highway safety requirements.

[Jasim's Blog - Dubai] Pentagon getting into the flying car circus with Personal Air ...: There's just a trickle of the Pentagon's nearly unlimited budget going toward the flying cars now, but that could ramp up fast. With all the secret "black ops" going on behind the Defense Department's closed doors, maybe DARPA has some exotic flying-saucer levitating tech to go into this thing.

[Peer Pressure Works!] The 'Super' Bowl | Peer Pressure Works!: Yes, we are now officially two weeks away from the day of the final game (well, sure there’s the Pro Bowl All Star game, but I think viewership of that matchup might consist of crackheads so zonked out of their minds they no longer possess the wherewithal to change the channel and tinfoil hate wearing conspiracists who are convinced the game is chock full of secret messages from the Illuminati). And in that final game shall be the titanic clash between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the…the Arizona Cardinals…Jesus, I was hoping maybe that had been some great mistake that had been rectified by now, but apparently the great joke is being allowed to continue.

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