Oct 192013
An interesting design for a roadable aircraft:
See more & bigger drawings of this vehicle HERE.
For operations on the ground, it appears that the nose wheel (or nose treads, for off-road use) would be powered, while the prop would continue to provide thrust. Given Russian experience with aerosani, this is hardly surprising.
The idea of a roadable autogyro is neither new nor particularly silly. One such vehicle, the Pitcairn AC-35, was tooling around the streets of Washington, D.C. in the 1930’s:
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And, perhaps vastly more interestingly, a new roadable autogyro, the PAL-V, may soon be tooling around the streets of the less-overly-regulated parts of the world soon.
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