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1 Sponsored Loaded 0% Every driver has sat in traffic and looked to the sky and wanted to fly to their destination. There are modern flying cars out there, and some see this as one of the future methods of transportation. In 1973 Galpin Ford participated in a project that cooked up something using the Ford Pinto that was way ahead of its time.
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To use any other car would have required re-calculating from scratch, so the filmmakers had to work the script to put James Bond in an AMC Hornet, leading to AMC involvement, and probably the only all-AMC car chase in film history. And it is crazy how much this flying Pinto looks like the jet-powered Matador from that movie.
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The 1973 AVE Mizar. Weld a Cessna Skymaster to the top of a Ford Pinto and boom: You have a flying car. The AVE Mizar used both the aircraft and car engines for takeoff, while four-wheel breaking.
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The Ford Pinto is a subcompact car that was manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company in North America from 1971 until 1980. The Pinto was the first subcompact vehicle produced by Ford in North America.
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Henry Smolinski was the creator of the AVE Mizar. The inventor had a dream to take a Ford Pinto, combine it with a small aircraft, and glide among the clouds. The Pinto is known for its combustible issues, but it also proved lethal for the man who took it to the sky.
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Perhaps the most infamous example was the AVE Mizar, a.k.a. the "Flying Pinto," which killed its inventor on an early voyage. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machine Henry Smolinski was.
They sought to produce a commercially viable flying car by attaching the wings, pusher engine, and part of the fuselage of a Cessna Skymaster to a Pinto, christening their creation the AVE Mizar (pronounced my-czar). The way they imagined it, you could drive your Pinto to the airport, mate your car to the airframe, and hit the runway.
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The Pinto was introduced in 1971, as a tiny car in an age with not only high gas prices, but a gas shortage that would lead to rationing and infamous lines at the pumps in cities across the.
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The AVE Mizar - the historic "Flying Pinto" car that ended up killing its inventor Man's' preoccupation with the capability to escape his earthly domain and soar amongst the clouds has led to innumerable ingenious methods of getting aloft. Some methods have been practical - others not so much.
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The AVE Mizar (named after the star Mizar) was a roadable aircraft built between 1971 and 1973 by Advanced Vehicle Engineers (AVE) of Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The company was started by Henry Smolinski and Harold Blake, both graduates of Northrop Institute of Technology's aeronautical engineering school. [1] Development Prototypes
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It was literally a huge disaster. Over the last year, scientists have been trying to perfect a real flying car — which is for the best, since an imperfect car has caused a lot of trouble in the.
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The flying car concept employs six rotors. In fact, there are very few carmakers today who can display a new car concept alongside a flying car and get away with it. Honda, with its HondaJet is.
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The dream came to an unfortunate stop when the prototype crashed on September 11, 1973 (exactly three years to the day since the Pinto's official public introduction date), during a test flight with a new, 300-horsepower Lycoming engine that just had been installed.
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Well, in 1973 two inventors actually tried to create such a flying vehicle, and died while testing it. The article from the September 12, 1973 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) is below. Known as "the flying Pinto," a combination of a Ford Pinto auto and Cessna airplane, the prototype plunged to earth about a mile from Ventura County Airport late.
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At the time, AVE said that Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification flights would soon start. The plan was to use both the cars and the aircraft's engine for takeoff, and once airborne, the car's engine could be switched off. With brakes on all four wheels, the Mizar could stop in less than 525 feet.