“FLYING CAR” FOR £3OO
DIRECT-LIFT AUTOGIRO
WILL no ON ROAD
LONDON,. Sept. 1
A direct-lift autogiro, wlifph can be driven on tho road like a motor car, has been submitted for approval to the United States Bureau of Air Commerce. It costs £3OO. To convert (ho machine from car to aeroplane it is necessary merely to extend and secure the rotor blades. A few week's ago the Daily Telegraph published a description of another Hying automobile* invented in America, l’t, is a three-vVhecled vehicle/ (ho rear wheel serving as a tail wheel when it takes off for flight. The car may be either open or closed and the wings fold alongside.
Tho idea suggests a solution or the problem of the' private aeroplane owner whose means are limited. At present he must go by road or rail a considerable distance from city to aerodrome, and again at .his destination. ,lf developments are successful, a door-to-door vehicle is now in sight. In the roadster aUtogiro, the two. front wheels are used for steering, ‘ and the rear wheel for driving. A British version is fitted with n supercharged Botyjoy Niagara engine of fit) li.p. If is obvious that vehicles of this kind might have, some military value.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 10
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205“FLYING CAR” FOR £300 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 10
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