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RE: DARPA challenge to America: build flying car
Posted by peekercorp
8th Jun 2010
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Gee, what a clever new idea!
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. 'Jack of all trades, master of none' kind of thing. Now have the military start adding pounds by the truck load and what you have is a fantastic waste of money that will produce nothing but a good time for the designers and testers of the things, and piles of scrap metal for the buyers. Or they can park any that survive alongside all the Ospreys that they occasionally fire up just to keep the fluids in the motors from drying up.
Posted by paladin2
19th Apr 2010
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Well if that doesn't increase our ranks in our volunteer military...
...nothing will.
I want one!
I want one!
Posted by GuntherGump
19th Apr 2010
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RE: DARPA challenge to America: build flying car
A flying car may be a good idea for military and restricted purposes. But certainly not for mass use. Have you noticed how many small bingles there are on our roads each day? If these happen in the sky be prepared for a lot of heavy machinery dropping out of the sky, on to your garden, your house, or you! No one has yet invented a machine that will eliminate the fool in me.
Posted by yeoman
19th Apr 2010
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RE: DARPA challenge to America: build flying car
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
Peeker Energy Corporation
Can you tell us if the challenge is still on and if so how to apply?
http://peeker-energy.com
Posted by peekercorp
8th Jun 2010