The Flying Car Will Finally Fly—and Drive

The Science Of The Next 150 Years: 50 Years in the Future
When the U.S. civilian aerodynamics administering certified the Aerocar for operation in 1956, it seemed inevitable, at atomic to aerospace engineers, that afore continued the aerial car would yield its abode as a accoutrement in the barn of the archetypal burghal agronomical home. Yet that was not to be. The Aerocar, which looked like a car but had wings and could yield off on a abbreviate runway, was too big-ticket to absolve accumulation production. Aerocar International congenital alone six of these vehicles, abrogation the affiance of the aerial car unfulfilled—except in episodes of The Jetsons.