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Old January 15th 09, 02:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Flying Car: London to Timbuktu

Found this news item through my ISP:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/...n_flying_car_1

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Old January 15th 09, 06:55 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Flying car. Bah. It's a power parachute. Instead of the normal PP
"fuselage" they are using a dune buggy. I guess if they get stuck in
the middle of nowhere, or the chute breaks, they can still drive their
way home.
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Old January 15th 09, 07:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:22:49 -0800, johnbrake wrote:

Found this news item through my ISP:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/...n_flying_car_1


Story keeps changing.

The first report I saw:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01...ing_car_exped/
said it would fly over the Pyrenees and the Gibraltar Strait and drive
the rest of the way - now the Atlas Mountains and chunks of the Sahara
seem to have have got into the act.

The car seems to have changed too. The one in the first story had what
looks like a glassfibre shell and windscreen while the Yahoo photo looks
like a COTS dunebuggy.


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