How to make a Flying car

Due to the unbelievable challenge of designing, constructing, enforcing and license a flying car, CAA (now FAA) approved only two models as airplanes - and the 1959 Taylor Aerocar is the only one ever made. In 1956, when the motorway network was created, designers thought that flying automobiles would be part of our futures, and take-off s and landings next to motorways were part of some inventive suggestions.

But now only a few small lanes in the west and the Alcan Highway in Canada and Alaska have adjoining airstrips, but these are used for airplanes, not for flying automobiles. Today, George Jetson's dreams of a private plane seem like an obsolete 1950s fiturism. There' s the smart Terrafugia, the mad multi-turbine Moller and the hopes that one day we might all have the flying vehicles we promise.

They had a completely closed aluminium structure with synthetic window frames and could be propelled on the road with the help of the prop. The front engine's Curtiss drive unit drove the back prop with a drive shaft and belt disks, and the triplane's blades could be taken out of the car. It was Curtiss who wanted an aircraft that contained the luxurious interiors of automobiles of the period instead of the naked bone of those years.

However, when the First World War began, the evolution ended and the car tarpaulin never flied. This double-decker that René Tampier made for the Paris air show in 1921 was powered by two motors, a 12-cylinder for the aircraft and a four-cylinder for the city. It was possible to remove the wing while the body was running on four tyres.

The Tampier company sold the idea to the France army, claimed that it could be transported on boats or with troops by car, and the detachable wing made it possible to store it in a shelter. Following a brief trip to the Paris Air Salon, the roadable travelled through Paris for two hrs and reached 15 miles per hour.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an arquitect and creator, created a mobile aeroplane with detachable wing and cock, claiming that a single individual could conclude the work. She had four bicycles, although she was meant to be a roadworthy plane rather than a flying car. CAA gave its unconditional consent to the plan, and Airphibian successfully flown it - Charles Lindbergh even steered it.

Use a four-seater fibreglass bodyshell and mount a winged and power unit modules to the rooftop - that was the brainchild behind Henry Dreyfuss' Convaircar. With a 35-foot span and a 190-horsepower Lycoming airplane powerplant; when fitted for the street, the fibreglass car was propelled by a small Crosley 25-horsepower powerplant, and the airframe and airplane power modules could be detached and dragged behind the car.

He was a renowned industry stylist and the man behind such things as the 20th century Limited engine and the Polaroid SX-70 land camera, so he was able to get clients and investment buyers interested in the flying Convaircar. Moulton Taylor, in 1949, constructed a foldable all-wheel drive aircraft based on the early removable aircraft/car created by motorbike adventure and creator Robert E. Fulton Jr. in 1945.

There was a lone motor that drives a thrust prop that the servers would take off before they drive the Aerocar onto the street. In five seconds, the wing could be unfolded. Taylor's creations had a span of 34 ft with wing extensions and were 21 ft long. The Aerocar was driven by a 150 hp Lycoming motor, which also drives the front tyres via a standard transmission, and had a handlebar and a lever.

The Aerocar was approved by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in 1956 as an aeroplane with a street velocity of 60 mbph and an flight velocity of 100 to 117 mbph, dependent on the type of powerplant. Buick engineers at General Motors' Milford Proving Grounds in Michigan designed this foldable plane, driven by a thrust prop type continental motor.

These blades were conceived in such a way that they can be folded in two places and create a protection basket around the prop, which was also the energy supply for the car tarpaulin when it was in use. All three Bryan models rode more than 1000 mile on the roads, with a top speeds of about 60 mbph, and flown the second model for 65hrs.

In 1974, however, he was killed in an accident with his third model, allegedly because a signal lamp did not warn him that a grand piano was not closed for use. Mizar used a Cessna Skymaster grand piano and an assembled motor mounted on a Ford Pinto.

In contrast to the Convaircar, the Mizar had no possibility to pull the aircraft parts behind the Pinto when he was on the street. In 2006, for a trick for his real-life TV show Monster Garage, bike manufacturer Jesse James mounted a wing, cock and motor on a Panoz Esperante.

Then he took the creations to a runway near Kitty Hawk, N.C., where the Wright brothers first flown. During his first test run James was able to bring the 305 hp Ford V-8 powered Esperante into the air at 80 mb and flown the car for 3 seconds, equivalent to a range of about 350ft.

It is three time as far away as the flight of the Wright brothers 108 years ago. Designed by Paul Moller, a Canada graduate engineering and college lecturer who designed the Supertrapp tailpipe much loved by bikers, the Skycar uses four turbo motors for buoyancy and power and has very small blades. The Skycar's power (should it ever fly) was guaranteed at 275 miles per hour cruise and a top 375 miles per hour cruise.

This four-wheeled carbon-fibre aircraft's blades accumulate and unfold electronically. Transition is capable of reaching 62 km/h on the street with its back axles powered by a horizontal opposite four-cylinder Rotax 100 hp motor. Terrafugia, as we told you last year, has overcome some of the many obstacles that need to be overcome in order to certify a flying car, so perhaps these early users will actually get one.