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Is it a car, is it a plane? - well actually it's both. It may sound like a work of science fiction, but it's true, cars have been designed to fly and aircraft has been designed for road use.
The flying car is a symbol of a modern age for which we're still waiting. Now, with Flying Cars: The extraordinary history of cars designed for tomorrow's world, published by Haynes, readers can explore the technological fantasies of numerous generations, as well as the weird and wonderful contraptions that actually made it into reality.
Seemingly so logical, these hybrid vehicles - half car, half plane - were first mooted by engineers the best part of a century ago. Even Henry Ford predicted they would become a reality.
Numerous machines have launched into the air - and some fallen from it. Today people are still working on new designs and even NASA is interested in the idea.
Flying Cars is the definitive guide to flying cars, giving readers insight into everything from the 'Airphibian' - marketed as transforming from aircraft to car in just seven minutes, to the 'Skycar' - with vertical take-off capability.
Beautifully presented, Flying Cars tells the story of the flying car, both in fiction and in the real world, revealing details of many a doomed venture alongside fascinating photographs.
With wonderful artwork from comics, popular science magazines and science-fiction novels, fictional flying cars are not forgotten, chronicling the likes of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Joe 90, Harry Potter and Flubber.
Meticulously researched and superbly illustrated, Flying Cars provides a fascinating voyage through a world that could have been - and might still be.
About the author:
Patrick J. Gyger is a Swiss historian and writer. From 1999 to 2010 he was the director of Maison d'Ailleurs, a Swiss museum housing one of the world's largest collections of literature relating to science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys. He is now director of Le Lieu Unique, a national cultural centre in Nantes, France.
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