Posted on Jul 31, 2015
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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The TF-X — unveiled at AirVenture, an aviation industry gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, last week — is called the TF-X and uses battery-powered rotor blades to lift off and moves into forward flight using a gasoline-powered propeller-like fan for thrust. It carries four people and cruises at 200 mph and flies to a destination that the driver punches into its navigation system.

http://www.today.com/money/terrafugias-tf-x-brings-flying-cars-closer-reality-no-airport-t35586
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Put these out in an open carry state, and some slack jawed yokels are going to get into dogfights in the air. Heaven help us.
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TSgt Melissa Post
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This would be awesome. but would it travel as fast as an airplane? Obviously it wouldn't go as far for lack of fuel, but if it went as fast I don't know how safe that would be. Not everyone has pilot reflexes and there are no stoplights or yield signs in the sky. haha. Are we making progress to being more like the Jetsons though?
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
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Way so not yet! LEOs can't handle traffic enforcement on the ground let alone in the air. Flying Under the Influence, I can see it all unraveling now!! :-)
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CSM David Heidke
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You actually do need an airport if you want to fly it.

You don't need a hangar, and you won't have to pay an airport to store it.

But unless you have a runway to take it off and land it, you'll have a tough time.
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CSM David Heidke
CSM David Heidke
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. - ah... I was thinking the transition. You need runway for that one.

My concern of road-going airplanes is the effect on insurance rates.

A fender bender in a Volvo could be as low as $1,000 a fender bender in a Terrafusia could cost $10,000.

In the past, road-going airplanes were neither good cars, nor good airplanes.

But it does get one excited in new innovations in aviation!
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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Your right about the past ... Popular Mechanics type stuff at best
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