Green Options » flying car http://greenoptions.com/tag/flying-car Posts tagged 'flying car' Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:31:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en No Joke: Flying Car Runs on Ethanol with 180 Mile Range http://gas2.org/2008/11/10/no-joke-flying-car-runs-on-ethanol-with-180-mile-range/ http://gas2.org/2008/11/10/no-joke-flying-car-runs-on-ethanol-with-180-mile-range/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:31:06 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://gas2.org/2008/11/10/no-joke-flying-car-runs-on-ethanol-with-180-mile-range/ The flying car has been the inventor’s enigma since the dawn of motor vehicles, but using a simple fan and parachute combo, a British engineer has created the an ethanol-powered road-legal flying car with a range of 180-miles.

Best part? All you need is a one day course and a powered-parachute license to fly the Skycar.

“I started making a paramotor on wheels that you sit on and take off and it suddenly occurred to me, ‘Why not just have a car that does everything?’” said Gilo Cardozo, who owns a Wiltshire-based company called Parajet.

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