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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
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The big difference between this new one and all of the old school ones is that the new one is apparently entirely self contained. You drive it as a car, press a button and in 15 seconds (?!?!?) it turns into a plane. Fly around, land it, press a button and it transforms back into a car, you drive away.
If it could really do that, that would be something that could eventually be pretty cool and useable.
The old ones, you had to drag along all the wings, etc. in a trailer, takes tools and a half an hour to put it together. And, if you fly it somewhere, when you land and convert it back to a car, what are you going to do with the wings? You have to find somewhere to store them, etc. a big hassle.
One like this would be pretty practical, even if you had to land at an airport. If you could hit the runway, taxi off, press a button and in 15 seconds hit the highway.
But if these things were affordable and more of them hit the roads/air, I'm sure people would build little landing areas for them.
I think as tech progresses, something like this will eventually happen.