Heh.
Low-flying car: Russian ex-pilot builds working prototype… but it can only get 10ft off the ground
It becomes airborne at 60 miles per hour but has a maximum height of just 10 feet and can fly a distance of only 600 feet.
The Russian inventor from the city of Kaluga, 93 miles south West of Moscow, modified a 1987 ZAZ Tavria car by replacing the doors and bonnet with lighter materials and then adding wings.
It appears that the actual purpose of the car is to give trainee pilots practice in takeoffs and landings. I’m a little uncertain that this would be the best simulator for that sort of thing, but as it’s currently built, that’s pretty much all it’d be good for.
Oh, and mandatory:
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I’d like to have the car, but I’d like to have a boat version of it. A cheap WIG, I guess.
> A cheap WIG, I guess.
Easy To Pay, is what yer saying….
If it can only go ten feet up, it’s obviously a WIG… which would be fine over water, but if you are flying it over ground (and don’t run into a tree) and pass over a hole or bump in the ground… what happens then, particularly if it only passes under one side? You sideslip at an angle till one wingtip hits the ground?
> it’s obviously a WIG
Seems to be a WIG *glider.* Run it up to takeoff speed with the car engine driving the wheel, then pull back on the stick and up you go. A few hundred feet later… down you come.
Oh, nothing could go wrong with that idea… especially in a side wind. 😉
(I’d still love to have seen a Triebflügel or Convair Pogo pilot try a landing in windy conditions.)