Flying cars have “the potential to be a game-changer” for military operations, a military official who oversees the development of strategy and operational concepts for the Air Force said.
Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote divulged his vision as the Pentagon pursues the development of organic resupply buses, also referred to as flying cars, saying such technology could make the military more versatile in combat and other situations.
“I could see a time in the future where high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are very useful,” Hinote, who is the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration, and requirements, told Military.com in an interview published Wednesday.
The Air Force launched its Agility Prime initiative in April 2020 to encourage and work with companies to develop the technologies, saying that the vehicles could act “as an organic resupply bus for disaster relief teams, an operational readiness bus for improved aircraft availability, and an open requirements bus for a growing diversity of missions.”
Flying cars would be particularly useful for the evacuation of noncombatants and aeromedical evacuation purposes, Hinote suggested.
Read more at Washington Examiner.
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Doesn’t seem to be a major difference between a flying car and a helicopter
that’s a silly comment, there are many places you can’t get to with a wide rotor
This is pure semantic stupidity.
Vertical TakeOff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft are already in service in various forms (The Harrier being a prime example of one). What they are talking about is such aircraft that will be designed to carry supplies rather than be attack aircraft.
Both Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines have done research on the concept of a “flying car” (a vehicle that can travel long distances on a road, take off and fly above land, then return to the ground and continue traveling on the road (taxiing to and from a flight is NOT considered traveling). Both have reached the conclusion that such a device is (at least) highly improbable and certainly impractical due to the inherent conflict between the aerodynamics. A car is aerodynamically designed to be pressed to the ground so as to increase stability, while a flying craft is designed to be easily lifted up – you can’t design a vehicle that will be both…
you might want to note there’s something more to engineering than Popular Mechanics? Of course the wing generates a lift, but it’s folded in the car configuration.
I know a fellow who took his flying car for an emissions test. The emissions tester told him that his car passed the inspection with flying colors.