Flying car

I like the idea of using a hybrid Tyre Rotor for a flying car.

The hub could also act as an electric motor.

The tyre spokes also act as the rotors, which retract from the rim to allow for spinning.

An arm comes out to hold the wheel, while the axle retracts to allow for the wheel to be turned 90 degrees by the arm, the axle then pops back out and re attaches back to the hub, the arm holds the tyre and outer rim, while the spokes retract from the rim to act as the rotors driven by the electric motor in the hub.

While the car is stopped

1 4 hydraulic pins come down then lift the car slightly off the ground

2 Two arms comes out to hold each tyre

3 axle then retracts

4 arm then flips tyre 90 degrees

5 Axle then reattaches back to the hub

6 spokes retract from rim

7 spokes then spin and start lifting the car upwards

8 hydraulic pins retract

9 an option would be to have winglets to slid out for gliding

10 tail for stability while gliding.

11 small jets at the rear for fast short duration acceleration

12 both car and quad copter could have self driving modes.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Flying car

I like the idea of using a hybrid Tyre Rotor for a flying car.

The hub could also act as an electric motor.

The tyre spokes also act as the rotors, which retract from the rim to allow for spinning.

An arm comes out to hold the wheel, while the axle retracts to allow for the wheel to be turned 90 degrees by the arm, the axle then pops back out and re attaches back to the hub, the arm holds the tyre and outer rim, while the spokes retract from the rim to act as the rotors driven by the electric motor in the hub.

While the car is stopped

1 4 hydraulic pins come down then lift the car slightly off the ground

2 Two arms comes out to hold each tyre

3 axle then retracts

4 arm then flips tyre 90 degrees

5 Axle then reattaches back to the hub

6 spokes retract from rim

7 spokes then spin and start lifting the car upwards

8 hydraulic pins retract

9 an option would be to have winglets to slid out for gliding

10 tail for stability while gliding.

11 small jets at the rear for fast short duration acceleration

12 both car and quad copter could have self driving modes.

The bigger the rotor, the smaller the power requirements for flight.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Flying car

I like the idea of using a hybrid Tyre Rotor for a flying car.

The hub could also act as an electric motor.

The tyre spokes also act as the rotors, which retract from the rim to allow for spinning.

An arm comes out to hold the wheel, while the axle retracts to allow for the wheel to be turned 90 degrees by the arm, the axle then pops back out and re attaches back to the hub, the arm holds the tyre and outer rim, while the spokes retract from the rim to act as the rotors driven by the electric motor in the hub.

While the car is stopped

1 4 hydraulic pins come down then lift the car slightly off the ground

2 Two arms comes out to hold each tyre

3 axle then retracts

4 arm then flips tyre 90 degrees

5 Axle then reattaches back to the hub

6 spokes retract from rim

7 spokes then spin and start lifting the car upwards

8 hydraulic pins retract

9 an option would be to have winglets to slid out for gliding

10 tail for stability while gliding.

11 small jets at the rear for fast short duration acceleration

12 both car and quad copter could have self driving modes.

Never going to happen.

You can’t trust people driving on the ground, never mind flying.

It seems when they have flying cars in fiction they usually use some sort of antigravity technology which would make the entire process a lot easier than using current technology, they also seem idiot-proof and almost fail safe and don’t fall out the sky.

Divine Angel said:

You can’t trust people driving on the ground, never mind flying.

This.

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

You can’t trust people driving on the ground, never mind flying.

This.

Images like this must have seemed inspiring at the time, but just look appealingly stupid now.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Flying car

I like the idea of using a hybrid Tyre Rotor for a flying car.

The hub could also act as an electric motor.

The tyre spokes also act as the rotors, which retract from the rim to allow for spinning.

An arm comes out to hold the wheel, while the axle retracts to allow for the wheel to be turned 90 degrees by the arm, the axle then pops back out and re attaches back to the hub, the arm holds the tyre and outer rim, while the spokes retract from the rim to act as the rotors driven by the electric motor in the hub.

While the car is stopped

1 4 hydraulic pins come down then lift the car slightly off the ground

2 Two arms comes out to hold each tyre

3 axle then retracts

4 arm then flips tyre 90 degrees

5 Axle then reattaches back to the hub

6 spokes retract from rim

7 spokes then spin and start lifting the car upwards

8 hydraulic pins retract

9 an option would be to have winglets to slid out for gliding

10 tail for stability while gliding.

11 small jets at the rear for fast short duration acceleration

12 both car and quad copter could have self driving modes.

The bigger the rotor, the smaller the power requirements for flight.

Ok.

Would it be possible to have a hybrid jet copter engine?

How small could one be made?

Could a small jet engine fit into a wheel hub to power the rotors around it?

Would that generate enough lift or is size still a problem?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Would it be possible to have a hybrid jet copter engine?

How small could one be made?

Could a small jet engine fit into a wheel hub to power the rotors around it?

Would that generate enough lift or is size still a problem?

Some military helicopers also have separate jet engines in order to fly them at high speed horizontally. How would you slow the jet down enough to stop the awful noise propagating downwards as the blade tips break the speed of sound?

Before the Jetsons, they were advertising that their cars could one day fly and optimistically put wings on them. But like that was the fifties and they gave up that idea long ago.

The Italian designer blending the past and future

Flying car racing could be headed to Australia

Tau.Neutrino said:

Flying car racing could be headed to Australia

“It’s just time the world had flying cars,” says Pearson. “Racing will push the technology like nothing else. It’s not enough to build the speeder: we have to build the sport. We want to bring the excitement and values of Formula 1 to the sky.”

Oh, wonderful. Right now ,when a P-plate cowboy exceeds his experience envelope, it’s usually a piece of road infrastructure that he collides with.

With flying cars, we can all sit at home, wondering when one will be coming through the ceiling at a great rate of knots.

what constitutes flying? like three cm’s off the ground?