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• NASA crowns winner in $250k "flying car" contest

  Published: August 12, 2007, 11:45 pm

  Tags: Cessna, Cessna 172, Cessna172, Flying Car, Flyingcar, Nasa, Pav, Personal Aircraft Vehicle, Personalaircraftvehicle

  Filed under: Transportation Flying cars come pretty high up the average gadget geek's wishlist, so it's pretty encouraging to see NASA funding a $250,000 contest that could eventually produce a pioneering vehicle that can fly and drive. Although none of the winners this time around can actually achieve the two feats, they all have features that

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• Avcen Jetpod T-100 City Flying Taxi says "naught" to highways

  Published: May 27, 2008, 11:19 am

  Tags: Avcen, Flying Car, Flying Taxi, Flyingcar, Flyingtaxi, Jetpod, London, Taxi, Taxis

  Filed under: Tablet PCs No, that's not a scene from The Fifth Element II. What you see here is the Avcen Limited Jetpod T-100 City Flying Taxi, a VQSTOL (Very Quiet Short Take-off and Landing) vehicle that the company says could be in the air by 2010. The idea is that these flying cars would volley people between city centers and outlying areas

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• Icon's foldable, 2-seater plane unveiled, available now

  Published: June 16, 2008, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Airplane, Flying Car, Flyingcar, Foldable Airplane, Foldableairplane, Icon, Lsa

  Filed under: Transportation Icon's foldable airplane is meant to fill that all-important gap between, say, hang gliders and commercial jets. This 2-seater Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) was unveiled last week to much applause by people with all sorts of cash. From a gadget standpoint, though, the Icon is worth a little deconstruction. It's powered by

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• M200G Jetson Flying Vehicle From Moller International To Hit Market in 2009

  Published: July 23, 2008, 8:32 am

  Tags: Automobile, Car, Home Decor, News, Technology, Air Car, Auction, Automotive, Engine Technologies, Flying Car, Flying Cars, Flying Vehicle, Flyingcar, Jetson Aircraft, Limited Edition Jetson, Limited Edition Model, M200g, M200g Jetson, M200g Jetson Flying Vehicle, Moller Int

  With the surging rise at the technological front and growing population and pollution, the overt need expressed by every second person is the availability of the flying cars. And again the simpler response to calm or shun their needs is the routine statement: It is difficult to produce one. But now you ca revive your hopes as Moller International

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• Terrafugia Transition flying car shows up at air show, doesn't fly

  Published: August 5, 2008, 3:19 pm

  Tags: Airventure, Flying Car, Flyingcar, Terrafugia, Terrafugia Transition, Terrafugiatransition

  Filed under: Transportation As promised, Terrafugia's Transition flying car recently made its public debut at the AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and while it didn't actually fly, it at least looks a whole lot more real than those renders the company had been showing off. Terrafugia has also gotten a bit more specific about the

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