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[Tom's Hardware UK and Ireland Forums - General UK & Ireland Discussions] Company announces development of flying cars: Pilot’s license requiredIn order to operate the vehicle, the pilot (not the driver) will have to be FAA certified and hold a pilot’s license. Currently only a visual flight rating (VFR) ability is planned, as the on-board instruments will not be sufficient for a full Instrument Rating.

[TG Daily] Flying car to take off in 2009 | TG Daily: The intended audience is the regular commuter who travels in excess of 100 miles at a stretch. The idea is to drive to the nearby airport, take off, land at the destination city, and then drive to the final destination for a business meeting, luncheon, vacation getaway, or other purpose.

[ArchDaily] BIG's proposal for the Audi Urban Future Award | ArchDaily: We imagina that inner cities that are currently banning cars through taxation or tolls to relieve congestion will simply become driverless rather than car-less. Driverless cars will combine individual mobility outside city limits with collective mobility within, as self driven cars move in coordinated concert with their fellow commuters they occupy a quarter of the space human-driven cars require.

[Next Big Future] The future of fast long range commuting: 438 mpg Commuter UAV: the Goshawk would cruise at 115 knots on 21 horsepower. And later in 2008, Slovenian plane-maker Pipistrel will begin selling its Taurus Electro, a glider that uses an .

[Dark Roasted Blend] Dark Roasted Blend: Future Tech Review: The Skycar M400 is a flying car prototype which utilizes Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) technology. This makes it possible to take off and land without the use of an airport runway.

[Manolith] 20 Predictions of the Future (We're Still Waiting For): During this time, everything previously or until this point conceived by people will be invented to a standard of decent usability. Hopefully one of the things that comes next in this exponential growth will be the reformation of school curriculum and policies.

[Pilot Lounge Recent Blogs] Pilot Lounge - Gates's Blog: Also, when we made a visit to Kenmore Air in the Pacific Northwest in search of some subject matter for our seaplane feature, we were taking a tour through a maintenance hangar full of piston Beaver rebuilds. The head mechanic said to me, “These are rich men toys.”

[Charlie's Diary] CMAP #6: Why did you pick such an awful cover for your new book ...: (Way to go for a Scottish crime/thriller, sort of like an LAPD police car parked in Time Square.) A fix was procured in the nick of time. (Lothian and Borders Police logo, and the Walter Scott Monument.) 2) The US cover of "Saturn's .

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