[Tim Hancock]

What plane did you end up buying Rob?

The biggest problem I have with flying "cars" is that they have to be built out of very lighweight materials to be able to fly anywhere near efficiently. Airplane designers go to great extremes to remove a few pounds. Adding mechanisms to retract wings, props, etc are going to be heavy which right off the top makes them less efficient compared to similar sized airplanes. The first time the wife hits a pothole or bumps another car in a parking lot, you are going to need extensive expensive "FAA approved" repairs to the delicate weight optimized structure. I truly can't see these things ever becoming mainstream. 250K or so for a car that is not very good at being a car along with an airplane that is not a very good airplane is too much of an oddity for the average Joepilot IMO.