Could this be the next flying car?

[husky drvr]

Maybe a way to improve traffic flow and drop commute times?

Hope it's not just a pipe dream, I'd like to see this succeed.

 

[Bill Blue]

Maybe a way to improve traffic flow and drop commute times?

Hope it's not just a pipe dream, I'd like to see this succeed.

Interesting. People say the weight of batteries is a big negative factor to EV's commanding the car market while others are building EV flying cars. I find the logic to be very strange.

 

[husky drvr]

Interesting. People say the weight of batteries is a big negative factor to EV's commanding the car market while others are building EV flying cars. I find the logic to be very strange.

What logic? Gravity always wins.

It's an engineering stunt on the same level as Evel Knievel's canyon jump attempt. Hopefully it has a better chance of proving a point - almost safely.

There is no real new technology being tested. It's a specific single seat, light weight, very high energy output for very short duration parts assembly created to test an extreme hypothesis.

I would still like to see a successful experiment completed.

 

[Bill Blue]

The builder needs to keep in mind the old adage, " Take offs are voluntary, landings are mandatory". I would not be surprised if the landing strip and take off strip are the same, contiguous strip of pavement.
Bill

 

[Barry]

The "upside-down F1 car" nonsense has been making the rounds for at least 20 years. Just more internet click bait.

 

[husky drvr]

Barry,

The implication from your "nonsense" statement is you don't think there's any chance of success. Why is that?

I tend to think it MIGHT be possible, but it won't be simple or easy. You can substitute cheap or safe.

It's surprising what air can support - just consider bumble bees and the Gee Bee race plane.

Myth Busters even got a LEAD balloon to float.

 

[Mike O'D]

I was fishing on Lake Erie years ago when the reproduction Gee Bee flew over on its way to the Cleveland air show. Quite a sight!

 

[husky drvr]

I was fishing on Lake Erie years ago when the reproduction Gee Bee flew over on its way to the Cleveland air show. Quite a sight!

Mike,

The Gee Bee was at the last air show I was able to attend in '99. Yes, it was impressive.

 

[Mike O'D]

You wouldn't think it would fly as well as it did by looking at it!

 

[Bill Blue]

Well, it was an airplane, not a car imitating an airplane.
Bill

 

[husky drvr]

not a car imitating an airplane.

This is a car imitating an airplane:

Now back to the original implied question - "Can a wheel driven road vehicle develop enough aerodynamic down force to stay attached to an inverted road?"

 

[Bill Blue]

If the car is creating downforce and the road becomes inverted, so does the car as well as the downforce. The downforce becomes upforce.
Bill

 

[husky drvr]

Think you've got the idea.



Now for something different - sort of................. Shades of Chaparral 2J!

 

[husky drvr]

Just for the fun of it, and to observe the other side of a story, here's a plane imitating an automobile:

 

[Mike O'D]

The Harrier clip looks like the Cleveland air show. I was in the front row of the VIP section watching that demonstration. It was so close I could feel the heat and smell the exhaust fumes - fingers jammed into my ears!

 

[Pete S.]

The Harrier clip looks like the Cleveland air show. I was in the front row of the VIP section watching that demonstration. It was so close I could feel the heat and smell the exhaust fumes - fingers jammed into my ears!

As a young man I spent couple of years studying and working in England. I went to a big airshow where they demonstrated a Harrier. I still cannot believe how incredibly loud it was.