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Flying Ferrari to take to the air in two years?
As if the flying car stories weren't getting outrageous enough, now we're hearing about a flying Ferrari. Moller International, that company that keeps on saying there's a flying car just around the corner, now doubles down with its latest concept, the $813,000 flying Ferrari 599 GTB.
The ambitious company, headed up by designer Bruce Calkins, plans to roll out the first example of this 150mph beast in two years. It'll have an 800hp hybrid gas/electric power plant under the hood, blasting air through its eight thrusters to get the thing off the ground. Using that system, Calkins says it'll have a range of 75 miles through the air and 150 miles on the ground, with a maximum altitude of 5000 feet.
The designers are using the shape of the Ferrari 599 GTB, because it has "the general shape and layout" they're looking for. There's no word on what Ferrari thinks of this "borrowing" of its design for this vehicle which seems more fantasy than fact. But then, stranger things have happened. If Moller International was looking to copy a great shape for flying, it should have taken a gander at this Ferrari Monza concept.
By HACK_zone at 1:44 PM ON 11/03/08
it's FREE?
By Vfx2k4 at 2:08 PM ON 11/03/08
I dunno- they are ignoring some very basic physics and aerodynamics with that design but it sure looks purty.
By cdl1701 at 3:29 PM ON 11/03/08
I am calling BS on this one. I am sorry but this Moller guy has been at this so long and still his first design does not work reliably. His head is just way to far in the clouds with this one.
By kingshootr at 6:27 PM ON 11/03/08
Die Moller - We're tired of your worthless promises of flying cars. God you suck.
By sketcherboy at 11:58 PM ON 11/03/08
very interesting. Hope well fly by Car someday!
By ReeyferMadness at 12:02 PM ON 11/04/08
Is that top picture supposed to be real? It looks like a toy car with a pic of him photoshopped in behind it. THe pic of him is in like a different focus.
By How cars fly at 1:41 PM ON 11/05/08
Oh boy.. This won't go anywhere. I doubt we'll be seeing flying cars anytime soon, not on a practical level.
By Sharath at 3:40 AM ON 11/07/08
It is not Possible
By binh at 10:38 AM ON 12/03/08
you rule dude i will not have jams anymore
By Boraxo at 11:03 PM ON 01/04/09
Give me a very insecure rich guy, a couple of bottles of wine, followed by a drive up Highway 1, and I'll show you a flying Ferrari.
By bb at 9:52 PM ON 03/22/09
the airfoil is all wrong it will fly but the way they built the airfoil is made the same as the tail rudder on a hawk 127 that means that the car can barrel roll
and there is no tail rudder it will just fail in the end
By keifo at 9:31 AM ON 12/08/09
I like the idea of the 8 turbines, it sounds like to me it could work if it as the right amount of power to lift up and the flux compastor LOL
By lux at 7:18 PM ON 01/14/10
i will bet this will take 10 years or so....to actually accoplish this....if im wrong then let me be stuck by lightning...and if this exsisted it would be on my top list of cars next to Bugatti Veyron...
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