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Thursday, 12 July 2018

A different approach to flying cars

Very interesting. Lots of bold claims and goals on the website, but few hard numbers. We'll see how this goes.
https://www.opener.aero/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcpq6XYYoY4&feature=share
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2 comments:

  1. Joe Carter12 July 2018 at 18:29

    I will say whether or not the product works as intended, it is a great sliver of a marketing campaign in this video.

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  2. John Reiher12 July 2018 at 18:44

    Hopefully it has one of those emergency recovery systems on it, a parachute launched from a mortar to keep it from crashing.

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