Carbon Neutral Flying Car to Make Unlikely Voyage

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Seyth Miersma on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 14:07
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Rarely does a day pass that we don’t catch wind of some new “green” vehicle, in concept or production form that has a goal of reducing the environmental impact of transportation. News about the long-held dream of a practical flying car however, seems increasingly difficult to come by. Thank god then for the Parajet Skycar, which proposes to serve both of these vehicular masters, and look like a totally sweet dune buggy in the process.

Calling itself the “first carbon neutral flying car”, the Skycar is a bio-fuel powered, lightweight sports car, which happens to allow a driver to take to the skies when things get a little too congested curbside. Using “the latest ram-air wing” the Skycar claims to be able to take-off from a field or runway of less than 200 meters, while still being safe for beginners to control and fly. Making use of a 1.0-liter Yamaha R1 motorcycle engine modified to run on biodiesel, the buggy will supposedly be good for a 0 to 62 mph blast in 4.5 seconds and a top speed of around 112 mph. Conversion between the two modes is said to take only three minutes or so.

Fly-by-night (sorry) flying car concepts have come and gone, but the Skycar team is preparing to put up or shut up in the spring of 2009, by planning a massive journey in the bi-mode vehicle from the U.K. to Mali in Africa. Consider us to be unconvinced about the expedition until we see further proof of it getting off the ground…as it were.

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Steve

Wow. Interesting idea, to be sure. I'm curious to see how it plays out.

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Thu, 07/17/2008 - 14:24
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Trinks

Cautiously optimistic about this one...

Thu, 07/17/2008 - 22:07
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chartguy

Even if it's very lightweight, it is going to require a much larger parafoil than the one in the illustration. That one would probably be too small for just the driver, without the car, propellor and motor. It's a simple tradeoff: more motor means higher speed and less wing necessary. Maybe they're hoping to get an awful lot of power from their motorcycle engine, but that's odd if it has been converted to diesel.

Fri, 07/18/2008 - 15:17
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donYan

Hola from Mexico to you all:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7826330.stm is the video of Skycar's first flight test

it's currently tested flying & driving half way from London to Timbouctou (Mali). Last diary entrance said they made tests with the new wing and were waiting to cross by air, from the Straight of Gibraltar into the African continent...that view on your post, is not a photo but a "montage" of the idea, using the same "wing" I skydive with! It is for one person only (not even a two person tandem)...

The video works well on my http://donyan.blogspot.com/2009/01/skycar-expedition.html english blog: I put a copy here but videos do not work here (yet: working on that issue)

Skycar uses Bio-fuel, their diary is: http://www.skycarexpedition.com/news.php for the latest news.

Landings still need an expert at the togles (parawing controls & brakes) but the expedition is to tune up this idea, as a test flight bed...I mean buggy! (never intended to be a conmutter car, but a fun vehicle a la dunne Buggy)

Parajet is a builder of Paramotors, so they have experience in that field. Good Luck to the Parajet Expedition team & pilots!

I atribute the lack of photos available, because they do not want somebody to steal all their efforts, before they go commercial...that happened to the Wright brothers!

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