zomg a flying car
by Christopher Blizzard
Yes! A flying car!
OK, it’s not exactly a car as much as it is a roadable aircraft, but it’s awesome to see people at least experimenting in this area. Congratulations to the Terrafugia folks on a successful first test flight.
I’ve had the chance to interact with a few of the people at the company through the local EAA chapter (a few of the Terrafugia people come from MIT) and they were all really great. Very happy for them.
Camera A:
Camera B:
Interview with the pilot after the first flight for the pilots among us:
There are a couple of other videos on their video page.
Flying cars from the 50s http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/12/taylor-aerocar.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp so I’m not sure why people are touting this as the first flying car (not saying you are, but other news sources are)
Just another instance of a planet gnome blog touting about old technology that has nothing to do with gnome, because after all gnome devs can’t innovate on their own. They just wait for OSX to make something then copy it and makes a big deal about it. See release notes for 2.26 for a whole list of been there done that features.
iain – Yeah, that’s an old one. Love to see people trying it again, though. No idea if it will be commercially viable or not. It’s different and will be a niche product, but I don’t care. Much like some people like turtles I like airplanes. :)
Whoa, I love– OS X can run off a flash drive? It can be made to download all system updates via bittorent? It ships with colemak? It runs on all the hardware people already own? Frick, my Ubuntu Dell Just Works with hardware my 10.4.11 eMac can’t even detect, cameras and such. Is 10.5 better at that? Better be. Probably is. (also bloated like a pig though, and death to stacks.)
..I guess what I mean to say is that your comment is not only completely irrelevant to like, everything, it’s total crap too. Happy birthday!
Yeah, I saw this yesterday and had a pretty similar reaction. And I’m not even an airplane geek!
@ ethana2
Thank you for the birthday wishes. :)
Does the average user actually want to do all that? It’s funny to watch how your answer never address the actual issue I was talking about, which was gnome, not linux. OSX was actually a reference to the interface of OSX, I expected context to make it clear but I guess no one pays attention to context anymore, at least not if hurts their argument.
I’ll let you go back and read that and then see if you have a strong enough argument in defense of GNOME. (Or even the crap that planet gnome syndicates. I was hoping that devs were just not blogging their progress, but a look at the release notes, and I knew that my hopes were wrong. The whole time before the release was spent arguing over git or some other side issue.).
Well trolled, I Love. :-)
Thanks Jeff!
I heard a number of things about flying cars, and that and why they have not been a success even though there were some good models in the 50s and some other concepts (gyrocopter-based and other) since then on the Lift09 conference titled “Where did the future go?” (“So where’s my flying car?” was one of the starting talks), which was even sponsored by Mozilla – see http://www.liftconference.com/lift09 for info and online videos of the talks, including that topic.
I just want a jet pack.
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