If DARPA truly submitted a challenge for designing and building a true "flying car" I thoroughly missed it. We have been working quietly on the subject for a few years and been busy filing for patents left and right. We believe we have it in the form of an ionic (virtually) levitating vehicle; the ?ILV?. The problem is surely the on-board electric generator which must be very powerful, yet compact and light (no fossil fuel). We just filed a patent for a cyclotronic ionic power generator which can easily provide 1,000 kW of electric power capable to provide the energy to lift over 20,000 Kg vertically via a very sophisticated multi fiber ionic propulsion system. Such a generator would be the size of a regular V8 car engine and weigh 600 lbs or less. Nothing like we ever thought of putting inside of a car. Free from major aerodynamics limitations, such a device (flying car, using its own body as a propulsion engine) could very well have a shape of a brick and still fly, take off vertically with ease and float (hover) over any medium (ground, water, snow) for hours. If a low radiation medium half-life decaying isotope, such as Mesothorium is used, the range is practically limitless. Initially, to build such a unit it would cost multi millions of dollars, but in volume it may turn to be cheaper than a regular automobile. Such a vehicle could also serve as a mobile clean power plant to hook onto the local network and make money. It sounds strange? We do specialize in out of the box power generation devices.
Peeker Energy Corporation
Can you tell us if the challenge is still on and if so how to apply?
http://peeker-energy.com 
