Roadable Aircraft History

In the last 100 years there have been more than 70 attempts to develop a successful Flying Car ‘ clearly the concept has been enduringly attractive. Very few attempts have met with any technical success, however, and those that actually worked to any extent had poor performance as a car or a plane ‘ or both.

The difficulties of designing a successful Flying Car are enormous. The design requirements of a ground vehicle are so different to those of an airplane, that the task of trying to marry the two sets of requirements together into one craft presents many challenges.

An analysis of the history shows that most designs compromise the road vehicle mode in order to provide a flyable aircraft. These vehicles generally have an impractical shape and size, making them unable to fit in with other road traffic. Many have unsafe design concepts like exposed …

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Automobiles and airplanes were both inventions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both of these personal transportation alternatives cost about the same when they first came out but the public never embraced the airplane like they did the automobile. The growth in auto sales was meteoric, while airplanes (excuse the pun) just never got off the ground. Today the average production volume of a private airplane is less than 40 units in a year, with one airplane produced for every 4,500 cars – that’s more cars made every hour than airplanes made in two years!

The great gift of automobiles is that they give us the power to travel wherever we want, door to door, whenever we choose. Even though they are comparatively slow and subject to our increasing traffic congestion, they still offer personal freedom and convenience – they are relevant to our lives – they get …

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Skyblazer is a ‘dual mode’ vehicle, also known as a roadable aircraft or ‘Flying Car’.

Skyblazer automatically converts from car mode to airplane mode and back, so you can fly and drive interchangeably, combining the speed of a jet plane, with the door to door convenience of an automobile.

Skyblazer lets you journey wherever choose, on your own schedule, just the way you do in your car. But, with Skyblazer’s unique ability to operate both on the road and in the air, every local airfield becomes simply an on or off ramp to the fastest freeway in the world – the freeway in the sky.…

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