BLK95TA
01-23-2010, 03:08 PM
this guy is on some goooooood shit!
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/hangout/360309-converting-my-1g-eclipse-into-airplane.html
I should register there and tell him to google "Mizar Aircar"
here's info on the aircar for the record, lol.
http://photos.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Aircraft-I-Have-Met/AVE-Mizar/256031589_9Xwds-XL.jpg
http://www.cookieboystoys.com/mizar/mizar/pages/The%20Press%20Courier%20Oxnard,%20CA%20Wednesday,% 20September%2012,%201973%20002.jpg
The last line in that description is worth special attention. For in late 1973, Smolinski and Blake climbed aboard the Mizar prototype one last time and powered up the engines. No one knows what went on in the cockpit of the Mizar as it rolled down the runway during takeoff. But what is known is that very shortly after they left the ground, the \"self locking high-strength pins\" gave way and the flying car developers found themselves driving through the Southern California sky in a suddenly wingless, and decidedly non-airworthy, Ford Pinto.
The tragic death of the two principal developers resulted in the end of the Mizar project. So, still, the world awaits the first practical flying car. But there is always another one looming on the horizon, ready to take off from the technology underground and fly into the big time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzv4q5EEy1k&feature=player_embedded
the mizar was supposed to be available with a parachute safety system, apparently the prototype didn't have it, oops.
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/hangout/360309-converting-my-1g-eclipse-into-airplane.html
I should register there and tell him to google "Mizar Aircar"
here's info on the aircar for the record, lol.
http://photos.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Aircraft-I-Have-Met/AVE-Mizar/256031589_9Xwds-XL.jpg
http://www.cookieboystoys.com/mizar/mizar/pages/The%20Press%20Courier%20Oxnard,%20CA%20Wednesday,% 20September%2012,%201973%20002.jpg
The last line in that description is worth special attention. For in late 1973, Smolinski and Blake climbed aboard the Mizar prototype one last time and powered up the engines. No one knows what went on in the cockpit of the Mizar as it rolled down the runway during takeoff. But what is known is that very shortly after they left the ground, the \"self locking high-strength pins\" gave way and the flying car developers found themselves driving through the Southern California sky in a suddenly wingless, and decidedly non-airworthy, Ford Pinto.
The tragic death of the two principal developers resulted in the end of the Mizar project. So, still, the world awaits the first practical flying car. But there is always another one looming on the horizon, ready to take off from the technology underground and fly into the big time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzv4q5EEy1k&feature=player_embedded
the mizar was supposed to be available with a parachute safety system, apparently the prototype didn't have it, oops.