Crash of a...ah...airplane(?) at Willow Run

Good gosh, it looks worse before the crash...what's up with the staggered wings/canard?

 
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Awe hell.... Nevermind.
 
tawood said:
Good gosh, it looks worse before the crash...what's up with the staggered wings/canard?
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I am guessing that the wings/canard ends can be pushed in so it will fit in a smaller parking place...??
 
Zeldman said:
I am guessing that the wings/canard ends can be pushed in so it will fit in a smaller parking place...??
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I think so. When the wings are retracted, they are basically stacked on top of one another inside the fuselage/body.
 
I didn't think it was possible for a flying car to be uglier than the Terrafugia, but... I was wrong.
 
Dana said:
I didn't think it was possible for a flying car to be uglier than the Terrafugia, but... I was wrong.
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Taxi test? How hard can that be.
 
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Some people have too much time to waste in their lives...
 
Pilawt said:
So you never saw the Mizar (Ford Pinto + Cessna Skymaster wings and tail) ... ?
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I thought I remembered someone trying to hawk something like that in Sport Aviation in the mid-80s? (1987-88, to be specific... The only year I got Sport Aviation before I was a pilot)
 
Accidentally going airborne during taxi test results in immediate crash...

Judging from the photo of the crashed, uh, vehicle? Caroplane?

Whatever it is, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it might lack longitudinal stability. :D:D

Check out their website...it looks like a car from Woody Allen's Sleeper. :D

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I really like their claim the thing is made from "lightweight carbon fiber". In the background of the video showing canard extension on a prototype, you can see another test article under construction. It's made from 1/2" pink extruded polystyrene foam insulation, $11.98 per sheet at Home Depot, and covered with fiberglass.

LOL! :D


https://detroitflyingcars.com
 
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"Detroit Flying Cars WD-1 flying car" We all know how anything associated with Detroit usually ends up...
 
Is there any government money involved ?
 
:hairraise: :yikes:

Looked like too steep a climb, stall and beginning of a spin. How else do you pivot an airplane 180° around the tail???
 
Watching the video again I noticed something...as soon as the rear wheels leave the ground, the thing momentarily yaws hard left, for just an instance, before the throttle is cut...did the guy stomp the "brake", or in this case, left rudder?
 
Hang 4 said:
Holy crap indeed. I wonder what is supposed to be the elevator on that thing? The canards don't seem to move and the rear "spoiler" seems way too small. It went up so fast, I can't imagine that was from a control input, unless the driver was not a pilot.
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If you go to the website, it looks like in the photos it has elevators or spoilers on the canard, and either ailerons or spoilers on the back wing.
 
Did he think he was one of those fighters that can just afterburn and go vertical?!?
 
Looks like something failed or an undesired control input seeing as how he chopped the throttle trying to keep it on the ground.
 
Looks more like a crash test rather than a taxi test.
 
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