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The Flying Car
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Education/Training
Type: Non-Fiction
Copyright: 2007
ISBN-13: 9781105399053
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
The Flying Car.
Our old dream..
The book about the Flying Car.
“Hey Buddy! Where are you heading?”**** The Flying Car Saga***** Why do people dream of a flying car?**** Flying Car Creators**** How come none of the existing flying cars make it to our garages?**** What technical characteristics the flying car must have in order to be more attractive than a small airplane or car. **** Possible ways to build Flying car**** Lets look at my project which I call “Jet Bird”.**** Last optimistic note of this book***
Excerpt
Flying Car
“Hey Buddy! Where are you heading?”.
Aleksandr Anufriyev. copyright 2007.
The Flying Car Saga.
Why do people dream of a flying car?.
The first and most important reason why people want a flying car is usability(convenience).
Instead of calling the airline company to buy tickets on an airplane, (if you're lucky and can get the tickets on the flight that you want), waiting until the day, calling a cab, running to an airport early, because you can not be late, nobody will delay departure for you, and then wait in the airport several hours with your luggage.
Then give up your luggage to people that will put it on a different flight (and that is what they do on a regular basis), and then go through today's airport security...
Instead of all of this, you can just get up from your chair, go to the garage, sit in your silver monster and drive to the airport.
People can stop drink coffee or tea or whatever they drink, stop to eat and look at the beauty.
Amazingly, if you want to stop and comeback to your house because you forgot something, or (even more amazing) if you change your mind, or the weather went bad, you can go home and plan the flight another day (or night), or anytime you want, because you are the Boss, you are a Captain, and it's your decision.
No need to return any tickets, no penalties, free and happy, you are king of the castle!
You push the gas pedal and wait for the speed indicator to show take-off speed, pull the steering wheel (of your car), and up to the heavens, closer and closer to the beautiful castles which you usually can only see from a great distance. Fly through them, at 30,000 feet, and now you can turn the autopilot on and relax. When you reach your destination point, a gentle computerized female voice will wake you up and instruct you to take the wheel in your hands, its time to land!
This is the life!!!!!
The second important reason for owning a flying car is the freedom in choosing your own destination. In the United States alone there are lots of small airports (more than 50,000), where small airplanes can land. A typical airplane that most people fly on (Jumbo) is not a small plane at all. So, if you fly from Los-Angeles to Miami, you will fly on a jumbo airplane. That's fine. Miami has a huge airport.
But what if you want to fly on the weekends from Lansing, Mishigan to Delbarton,West Virginia ?.
That would be a big journey!.
The actual flight (in the air) will take only two hours, but the trip to the Lansing airport, the baggage check , security check, departure, arriving in Charleston, WV (closest big airport), cab ride from Charleston to Delbarton, all of this will take more than five hours!!.
This is why people often prefer to drive “short” distances like this, it will take “only” around 9 hours door to door.
Of course, if you have a chauffer it might be a fun trip, but most people do not, and driving nine hours straight is tiring, when you actually get where you are going, the first thing you are gonna want to do is sleep,(there are no autopilots on our cars yet, and the highways get pretty busy).
Of course if you want to go from Lansing to the Upper Peninsula to fish or go mushroom hunting, forget it!!!!.
There are only small airports in that area, and lots and lots of water.
The best probable solution for the UP fans would be a flying amphibian car.
In this type of car you can drive into the Lansing airport, or drive out to Lake Lansing onto the boat launch and go into the water, take-off, fly about 2 hours( instead 5-6 hours drive ), land on the water of the gorgeous lake Michigan or another one of the thousands of bodies of water in this region, and go fishing!!.
You don’t need any boat, you are already in a boat, it is your amphibian flying car.
The third (for many people this could actually be the first) reason to have a flying car is affordability.
Amazing but true. Consider this, if you have an airplane, even a small one, you must keep it in an airport (which probably will not be very close to your home), you must pay a fee for this service (which can make most people say "Ouch!").
Most small airports do not have a hanger for your airplane, so your beautiful machine will be out in the open, exposed to all kinds of weather, winds, hail, rain, snow, sun and of course “bird jokes” (including a nest in your engine with a family of 7 (5 kids, 2 adults).
But if you had a flying car you could just park it in your own garage, that is it !!!.Your silver roaring friend would always will be with you.
No problems with maintenance, fix it anytime you want, take care of it, keep it inside all the time. Or, be more pragmatic, use this toy just as a regular car. Go to the work, visit friends, go to school, or go shopping.You, my friend have a second car!
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B) We can convert an airplane into a flying car.
In order to do so, we must make wings what work in the way I described above.They must be foldable, rotate able, detachable and so on.And, of course, we must build a transmission from the engine to the wheels.
Some builders don’t choose to do so, and use propellers to ride on the roads, which is very dangerous and uneconomical way to ride.You will spend much more fuel, and if your flying car stops on the down hill, it will never be able to climb back up.The maximum angle at which a car with a propeller can usually get from the stop position is about 12 - 15 degrees.
So we need a transmission, just like a regular car does.We also can use another way to add car elements to an airplane.
We can create new compound elements, let’s call them powered road blocks (PRB).PRB look just like the floats that you can see on floatplanes.
They will be attached to an airplane just like floats do.But this is the point were similarities between PRB and floats end.
Let’s describe PRB construction and function.
PRB is made from strong, light material and has low air resistance shape.It has an engine inside, wheels on the bottom, and, of course, transmission with a gearbox.
To make things easy to understand, we can treat PRB as a driverless, remote controlled, cigar like shaped, powerful motorcycle.The front wheel of this PRB is steer able, of course.
So, if we will attach two PRBs to the bottom of an airplane, we will see something like this:.
Picture 8.
Let’s take a real airplane and see how we can convert it in to a flying car.Let’s assume the road and flight characteristics that this flying car will have compared to an existing car with the same engine and weight on the road, and also like an existing airplane with same engine and weight in the air will be the same.
As an example we will use beautiful, robusted, legendary bird:.Cessna Grand Caravan!!.
It has 675 horse power Pratt&Whitney PT6A-114A turboprop.The length is only about 42ft (12meters), so on the road, with folded wings, it will looks just like small RV.
Cruse speed : 200 mph.
Range: 1,100 miles.
Load: 4,200 lb.
Those are impressive characteristics.But these are the characteristics before we add the left and right PRB’s.
If we assume that the PRB creates the same air resistance as float’s , and together they weigh 1,200lb, we will see something like this:.
Cruise speed : 190 mph.
Range: 1,000 miles.
Load: 3,000 lb.
Those are still very impressive characteristics.You can transport 12 passengers with a crew of one, or have 6 passengers with 1,500lb of baggage.
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