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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Culture
ABT Spotsline, You are a real idiot, "buy ur own flying car" No normal people(thats if u ar a normal person) will be able to buy them for about 60 years. Please tell me there ar no people as daft as this gay oops guy on here!
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Hey DJ Culture - it's kind of traditional when you are trying to accuse someone of being a moron on an internet forum, to actually do your homework before you hit the 'submit button ... and I have to tell you and Firestarter that you have lucked out big time. Partly for starting flame wars with nice TA's like Ur Dream Grl and ABTsportsline, and mostly for not knowing jack shit about what you are talking about.
With regard to these so called flying cars, lets set a few things straight for you cynics. Since the WTC attacks and the related loss of public confidence in the airlines, there has been a MASSIVE surge in interest in small, personalised aircraft that combine airliner speeds with car convenience. Just last week, Eclipse Aviation (www.eclipseaviation.com) took an order for 1,000 aircraft from an unnamed buyer that's planning to set up a USA-wide network of air charter aircraft not dissimilar to your local taxi service - you call, they collect and deliver you to your destination, apparently for the same price as an airline could do it. Richard Noble, the guy behind Thrust SSC - the first car to break the sound barrier - is behind a similar concept here in the UK (www.farnborough-aircraft.com) and there are some VERY big companies backing his plans.
The afore mentioned Moller Skycar is in the flight testing phase at the moment, we should be seeing them on the streets of the USA within 3 or 4 years.
None of these companies are small time dreamers - there is big money involved. The US government, a lot of European governments and some of the biggest companies in the world are backing these things to the hilt, mostly because they are the only truly effective way anyone's thought of to get rid of cars from city streets forever. And of course, terrorists can't take out skyscrapers with them. Yeah they're gonna be expensive at first and the initial demand will be driven by executives that used to travel business class, but not nearly as much as you think. The Eclipse jet is supposed to cost about $500,000. I've seen the cost analysis for the Skycar myself, and as I previously said it has the potential to be sold for around $40,000 to $50,000 if the numbers of buyers are there.
It's not even going to be a 10 year, let alone 20 year, time frame before these things are on the streets in large numbers.
I hate to be all techie and know-it-all, but this sort of thing happens to have been my line of work for most of the last 6 years, trust me on this one OK? 
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Last edited by Kia Kaha on Oct-29-2001 at 19:44
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