Early Flying Car & Roadable Designs

[jcf]

That's a design for racing car not a flying car. It was intended as an entry for the Indianapolis 500 race,
the design was disqualified because it only had three wheels.

 

[hesham]

That's a design for racing car not a flying car. It was intended as an entry for the Indianapolis 500 race,
the design was disqualified because it only had three wheels.

Yes I know,but it was easy to switch into flying car.

 

[jcf]

It was never intended to be a flying car, so how could it be easy to turn it into one?

 

[publiusr]

Skid plates that slide out from underneath with balloon upper surface maybe?

 

[Charlesferdinand]

It was never intended to be a flying car, so how could it be easy to turn it into one?

Just drive it full throttle down the Hunaudières straight

 

[1946]

How about the German Ambi-Budd 'flying car'. Shown off at a Berlin airplane show.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Well, not exactly "early" but early enough I thought it should be included for the humor aspect, is the AVE Mizar. The company had chose to base theirs on a Ford Pinto

Testing ended in a fiery crash. Somewhat apropos for using a Ford Pinto...

 

[Nicknick]

How about the German Ambi-Budd 'flying car'. Shown off at a Berlin airplane show.

Intresting, but it doesn't look like a real flying prototype and more like a mock up model. Surly it was planded as a Gyrocopter, but I wonder why it is missing the rear propeller on every photo...

Edit: Now that I wrote the text about it, I realized this was quite insane and would have never worked! The small rear fin would have had to counteract the torque of the driven rotor ! Thrust was inteded to be produced by the small wings on the end of the blades, pably they took inspiration from the Voith Schneider Propeller.

 

[1946]

Intresting, but it doesn't look like a real flying prototype and more like a mock up model. Surly it was planded as a Gyrocopter, but I wonder why it is missing the rear propeller on every photo...

Edit: Now that I wrote the text about it, I realized this was quite insane and would have never worked! The small rear fin would have had to counteract the torque of the driven rotor ! Thrust was inteded to be produced by the small wings on the end of the blades, pably they took inspiration from the Voith Schneider Propeller.

I think it also a gyrocopter. I thought it was funny that the writeup on it stated 'flying car.' At least it was made in 1:1 scale and on display, not simply a paper project.

 

[Nicknick]

Originally I tought it would be a gyrocopter, but it wasn't intended to be one. The rotor was driven (in theory...) and the end fins should have enable thrust. There was no tail rotor planed, so of course it wouldn't have worked.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is the York Research Crop of New York flying car.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1944/1944 - 2082.html?search=aircraft+1944

From Western Aviation 1944

 

[Stargazer]

This is supposed to be a topic about EARLY (i.e. pre-1945) air cars...

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I guess the management wasn't satisfied with the B-24...

The Convair Model 118 "Convaircar" of 1946, designed in 1945. Because Convair needed the business after the war ended so...?

Two were built. One crashed after running out of gas while in flight. Seems the pilot confused the car's fuel gage with the airplane part's fuel gage. One was full, the other near empty...

 

[Justo Miranda]

Helios made a mistake by lending his chariot to Phaeton, who was a very careless teenager who forgot to deploy the flaps.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Alexander Klemin designed a roadable autogiro in 1937.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Helios made a mistake by lending his chariot to Phaeton, who was a very careless teenager who forgot to deploy the flaps.

Or did he just ignore the "Fasten Seatbelts" sign?

 

[robinbird]

RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, in 1943 had a flying jeep project run by the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment.

 

[hesham]

From Modern Mechanix 1933/5.

 

[hesham]

From, Техника - молодежи 1936/8,

was that a flying car ?.

 

[hesham]

From, Техника - молодежи 1938/7,

I don't know who is the designer ?.

 

[hesham]

From, Техника - молодежи 1938/7,

I don't know who is the designer ?.

The picture 20 shows clearly a Grokhovski design,but was it the same
as in picture 21 ?,it's a tailless concept !.

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[hesham]

Does anyone hear about William Nelsch roadable airplanes ?.

 

[hesham]

From Aero Digest 1939,

the Theodore concept.

 

[hesham]

From TU magazine 210,

DANIEL ROY GROUP
In June 1935, in Chauvigny in the Vienne department, a gliding club was formed and named the "Daniel Roy Group," in honor of a military pilot from Chauvigny who had recently passed away. Its first president was Louis Trouvé, a former fighter pilot. By September 1935, the club had about one hundred members.
Immediately taking action, the members of this association began building a winch-car and a glider. The unique feature of this glider was that it was a "Pou du Cie" (a type of glider), but without an engine, of course. This allowed them not only to train future pilots but, above all, to build a glider at a very competitive cost, within reach of a small, fledgling club. Begun in the second half of July, the aircraft was finished for August 25th, the date of the Club's first meeting. The fuselage is strictly conforming to the plans in Mignet's book, as are the front and rear wings; the wingspan is 6 meters. It features a Mignet airfoil with a pointed leading edge and a raised trailing edge, covered in light and strong percale. The cockpit is also conforming, but a strut extends from the top of the cockpit and connects to a fitting on the fuselage nose. This fitting carries the tow hook. After much discussion, a wheeled landing gear was adopted, and an HM-8 type skid was installed at the rear. The empty weight of this glider is 75 kg. Immediately after the meeting on August 25th, the glider was tested, with the first flights being conducted by Louis Trouvé.
After some adjustments to the center of gravity, the glider was declared operational and used for training.
Given the success of this endeavor, the idea arose to replicate this type of construction, but this time in a two-seater configuration. The author does not know if this second machine was actually built.

 

[Arjen]

winch-car and a glider

A winch-car is an earthbound alternative to a tow-plane to get a glider airborne.
Wrong thread, therefore.

 

[hesham]

A winch-car is an earthbound alternative to a tow-plane to get a glider airborne.
Wrong thread, therefore.

It's from TU magazine as aircraft from France ?!.

 

[Arjen]

as aircraft from France

That is not how I read it.
'Voiture treuil' is adequately translated as 'winch car'. A winch car is roadable, causes gliders to fly but does not fly itself.
A winch car is not a roadable aircraft, neither is it a flying car.

 

[hesham]

Again the same concept with no ID ?.

http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF Riviste/Ala d'Italia/L'ALA D'ITALIA 1928 04.pdf

From Popular Mechanics 1928