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[Ledger-Enquirer: Business] Flying car is no pie-in-sky dream - Business - Ledger-Enquirer.com: Dietrich spent 12 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology getting his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. There are 35 investors in the company, he says, including himself.

[AZoM.com Engineering and Materials News Feed] Winged Car Gets Lift Off: Speaking at a March 18 news conference in which the Transition's first test flight was announced, Terrafugia CEO and co-founder Carl Dietrich '99, SM '03, PhD '07 said the FAA rule change and the Transition could help transform the way people move around the country -- especially in rural areas. "One of the biggest problems pilots have right now is that most of the 5,000 general aviation airports in the U.S. don't have any car rental facilities, or even a cab stand," he said, noting that the Transition could open many of these underused airports to easier, more practical use by private pilots.

[web4water - Latest News] Veolia awarded treatment contract for Angola: A flying car began its maiden voyage last Wednesday when a team of fifteen British adventurers set off from London, heading for Timbuktu in Mali. » Chip fat rally reaches finishing line.

[Just Luxe: Arts and Culture News] The Transition: A Flying Car: A Luxury Portal: Luxury Travel Articles, News, and Listings, Monday May. 4th, 2009, Add to Favorites.

[TG Daily - All News] TG Daily - Flying car by Terrafugia takes its first flight: The company is owned in part by Anna Mracek Dietrich, Carl Dietrich's wife and one of the 2009 Mass High Tech Women to Watch, and vice president of engineering Samuel Schweighart. These three (and several other employees of the company) were members of the Rocket Team at MIT.

[The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News] Terrafugia Transition the world's first flying car | The Daily ...: Stationary, the Terrafugia has the appearance of a Rocket Car constructed by people who ran out of budget before they could finish the front-end. But, despite its modest facade, this flying saloon has fire in its belly and can cruise at 115mph before taking to the skies.

[engineeringnews.co.za | Daily Podcasts] Daily podcast - January 16, 2009: Creamer Media's Mariaan Webb speaks to Engineering News contributing editor Christy van der Merwe about demand. Second Take:...

[MetaFilter] Space based Solar Power | MetaFilter: PG&E gets lots of pro-ecology press, and Solaren may be setting up something where they lure in investors for a project that will be the energy equivalent of the Moller flying car.

[Angelique's Blog] Wayne State University Student Blogger - Angelique's Blog » Blog ...: Tata claims that the car  emits less carbon dioxide than most motorbikes.The company is currently designing a similiar Nano that meets U.S. safety and emissions standards and should be ready around 2012. I will definitely be trying to get one of the more safer versions of the Tata Nano…I think they’re much more efficient, not to mention cheap.

[Xark!] Xark!: 2020 vision: What's next for news: Modern journalism is based on the idea that impartially telling “both sides” of a story is more useful than “taking sides.” This approach has limited value in an information-rich environment where the goal is finding the signal in the noise. Credibility, therefore, is likely to move toward information sources that demonstrate their understanding of events and situations via predictive accuracy rather than claims of non-predictive objectivity.

[TopTenREVIEWS Blog] Best of CES Innovation and Engineering Awards | TopTenREVIEWS Blog: That's a mouthful isn't it?) Products chosen for the distinction represent the latest, fastest, techiest and just plain coolest items we .While there won't be any flying cars at CES this year, there are some futuristic toys, gadgets and handy appliances appearing at CES this January.

[NeuroLogica Blog] NeuroLogica Blog » Viral Batteries: While most of the announcements of amazing breakthroughs ultimately lead nowhere (see flying cars), many do see fruition. Some of the incredible gizmos I marveled at in technology magazines a decade ago are on my desktop, in my home, and clipped to my hip today.

[The Gaea News] World's first flying micro-robot is born: WASHINGTON - Arguably the world's first flying car took its first test flight sometime this month, a milestone in a project started four years ago by MIT students. At 7:40 a.m on March 5, the winged car taxied down a runway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., took off, flew for 37 seconds and landed further down the runway - a manoeuvre it would repeat about a half dozen times over the next two days.

[CNET News.com] Why the flying car may be too much for humanity | Technically ...: All graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they formed the company four years ago with the aim of creating The Transition, a car that flies--not merely in the speed sense of "flies," but rather in the "takes off and does things planes do" sense.

[Carazoo Indian Car Blog] Indian Car Blog | Automotive News | Automobile Car Industry | Carazoo: Solar assisted climate control system and cavernous cargo compartment further add to the value of the car. The solar assisted climate control system helps you to stay comfortable in all weather conditions as the solar cells on the car’s roof keep the cabin at a friendly temperature.

[Healthcare Quarterly] Points of Interest :: Vol. 12 No. 2 2009 :: Healthcare Quarterly ...: In a study published in The Journal of Neural Engineering, Bloorview Kids Rehab scientists demonstrated the ability to decode a person's preference for one of two drinks with 80% accuracy by measuring the intensity of near-infrared light absorbed in brain tissue.

[The Business Insider] More Scientists And Engineers Isn't The Answer: The solution is not more engineers and scientists--we already have plenty who are being underutilized--but rather lower wage expectations, and central to that would be lowering the cost of living. I realize that that is an extremely unpopular point of view, which is why the U.S. has been leaning toward "service" industries, but that is unsustainable for the simple fact that "services" are, in general, not exportable (which is why they have been able to maintain outsized salaries for so long--e.g.

[Joel Barker's Good News] Joel Barker's Good News: GOOD NEWS #26 - #30 -- Personal ...: Again, if this is your first time visiting my GOOD NEWS Blog, you may want to read my first two posts, An Epiphany and Joel Barker's New Ideas to Consider. They will introduce you to what you'll find here when you visit.

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