FLYING MOTOR CAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12869, 23 May 1936, Page 10

FLYING MOTOR CAR

. r_• _ t_± TAKE OFF FROM THE! ROAD

, LONDON, Ajiril IS. The flying motor ear.is no longer a scientist’s dream. A windmill pfano which will be able to 1 fly iivtHe riir of travel along the toad like a- car is being .built-. Outwardly The flyirigcar differs very little' from the' now frimbns wiflglcss Cibrra ghtogiro with its' windmill-like- rotbr'Blades’.’ ' - ;

For uoe ; .of the-, .rpads,.*.-. with the | windmill blades folded back, the engine drives a shaft to the back wheel. Driving l his plane' out- of’Tiis town garage; the owner' of the flying motor car: tan bowl' along tlie; roads at, 20 to'3o hides an Hour to The open eouhri’y. Mere, Unfdldinjg .the rotor blades 'arid applying”'the brakes- to the wliebls, the pilot- speeds up the engirio which is * now linked’to the i’otor bladts.’ ’■ Spinning faster; and Master, th©-*it3tdr.-''lifts the,••’■machine straight up into the air a distance ctf 30 or 40 ttuo hdieter trke-off.

- The motor? '-isc. then; transferred to two - pusher • propellers, which, dr-vq . the - plane through the air at ICO miles an 1 hour. ■ . -. • •