British Terrafuga takes off!

[sharksandwich]

I could afford one.
But will my driving license be sufficient?
On a more serious note, anyone else have this problem-? Once above a few thousand feet, I just cannot achieve straight and level flight.
It is a real problem, as I love flying.
Keeping the nose just below the horizon is just impossible for me -- insructors have used very bad language, and I know a stall will kill -with a glider tug, kill the tug pilot as well.
Should I go for power, and just bang the throttle open?



Cleared for take-off: £132,000 flying car given the go-ahead by aviation chiefs | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1292600/Cleared--132-000-flying-car-given-ahead-aviation-chiefs.html)

[Avman]

Nice toy for the rich. Might have some practicality in the USA or Australia, but not in Europe.

[Noah Zark.]

wings that fold up automatically at the push of a button.

That could be embarrassing if someone happened to push the button whilst looking for the ciggie lighter, 'frinstance!

[Fokkerwokker]

Imagine being on the M25 with that bit of kit.....I would want a 50 yard exclusion zone of cotton wool around the vehicle!!!

[astir 8]

A stall with a glider on tow is relatively difficult as you are flying as fast as the tug pilot can get away with dragging you.

What kills tug pilots is the "upset" where a glider benind the tug starts acting as if it's being winch launched - hurtling upwards into the sky and dragging the tail of the tug upwards. This mainly occurs if the glider is being aerotowed on a CofG winch hook and not a nose hook together with pilot inexperience or inattention and maybe rough air conditions.

But the glider isn't stalled as such.

Sorry, just being picky

[aviate1138]

Terrafugia Transition is All American - other than the Rotax engine.

Needs about 1640 feet on tarmac to rotate [at around 80mph]

http://www.carlist.com/autonews/2006/image/terrafugia.jpg

First flew in March 2009 at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York.

[Agaricus bisporus]

One thought occurs...

Terror. Phew! Geee! Aaargh!

No thanks. Hybrid bastardizations seldom end happily. It will prove useless on the road (as the reviews seem to indicate) and almost so in the air. Pointless gimmick. See if I am wrong.

[aviate1138]

Don't like the concept anyway and the starboard door is rather loosely fitted..... must be rather noisy on the RHS.

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