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Crazy aircraft #65 – A beautiful personal/business jet
by Marshall Brain | January 26, 2010
Aircraft companies have been building “tubes with wings” for a long time because they are easy to manufacture. The Honda jet is a very modern aircraft, and even it is tube-with-wings: The Smartfish design has not been realized yet, but it looks beautiful on paper. It is not a tube-with-wings: SmartFish Stated advantages include: Long [...]
Crazy Aircraft #64 – NASA’s Puffin Personal Aircraft
by Marshall Brain | January 21, 2010
This could be the ultimate personal aircraft – the Puffin. It can take off and land vertically. It cruises at 150 MPH. And it is electric, which should go a long way toward solving the noise problem. Take a look: More info on this surprising design: – NASA’s Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft [...]
Crazy Aircraft #63 – The LaBiche Aerospace FSC-1 (Flying Sports Car #1)
by Marshall Brain | November 30, 2009
The Flying Car – It is one of those “dreams of the future” that hasn’t quite penetrated into reality yet. In many cases, the “car” version is ungainly and ugly, like the Terrafugia Transition, which can be seen in both its “airplane” and “car” configurations in this video: Why can’t the Flying Car look more [...]
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