Flying car one step closer to reality (yeah, sure)

On Jul 1, 10:22*pm, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message

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Dudley, I completely agree that it won't be usefull.

However, although you are absolutely right, my reasoning is a little
different. *Molt Taylor's Aerocar, was marginally usefull at a time when
most people were familiar enough with machinery to mostly avoid inadvertant
damage and relatively few people even locked their doors--and the Aerocar
allowed most of the "airplane" portion to be left at the nearest airport.
Even then, the main reason the idea made sense was that so many local public
use airports were a simple grass field with little services and no rental
cars.

So, today, even if all of the security and licensing issues were resolved,
the market would still be limited to a percieved need to land at one airport
and depart from another.

In my view, general use credit cards and the easy availability of rental
cars killed the Aerocar and the potential market is even more limited today.

Peter

Sounds reasonable to me Peter.
Strangely enough, I knew Bob Cummings for a short while. Great guy and
an avid fan of the old Aero-Car. He owned the thing for a while
actually. He loved it but saw the many problems associated with it as
we have noted in our 2 posts. Never did discover if he sold it. I'm
assuming he did eventually.
DH