The last Sky Commuter concept craft hits eBay
By Paul Miller 
posted Jan 14th 2008 10:23AM
posted Jan 14th 2008 10:23AM
[Thanks, Ryan K and nvyseal]
posted Jan 14th 2008 10:23AM
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Cue James Bond Theme music.
You mean queue?
(I'm kidding, I'm kidding..)
Actually, no. It IS "cue". Just like an actor gets cued for their line in a movie, you cue the music in a soundtrack as well.
A queue is a lineup.
Looks like it will go for over 100K in a heart beat...
I should by this... At 10 feet I could fly over a number of cars during those Beltway traffic jams.
And then you'd drop down on a number of cars during those Beltway traffic jams.
I can see you soaring over the traffic and then smacking into the back of a truck that's 12 feet tall.
I suppose "buy" would be more appropriate.
US $131,700.00
This looks like a great investment for the suicidal depressant. Exhilaration for about 10 seconds and then peace...
I sure as hell wouldn't buy anything from someone who can't type.
"All aircraft materials and built by the finest."
Finest what? Clowns? Chinese? Politicians?
"The ship is made of the same advanced composite materials as The Gossamer Cotidor and The Vovager."
Cotidor???
Vovager???
it appears he can type, just not very specific
Clearly, this plane was built by Chinese clown politicians.
Isn't this redundant, aren't all politicians clowns??
I assume Vovager means Voyager, but does it mean before or after Voyager was outfitted with Borg technology? I sure wouldn't want to get stranded in the Delta Quadrant in THIS thing.
In all seriousness, does it lose stability at ten feet or only if you try going higher? Because if I could fly this around at 8 feet off the ground, and I had $131k to spare, this could be a lot of fun. But if the motors can only last a limited time (the time it takes to get to 10 feet) this could be very dangerous.
Meh. I'd rather have a personal blimp. Sure they only go 10mph but that's still 10mph faster than gridlocked traffic.
personalblimp.com
I wonder what this would do with modern computers and fly-by-wire technology.
And 10 feet might be cutting it a little close to the semis. And you better watch out for the overpasses and power lines. 50-100 feet would be the best.
Give it to a terrorist.
they might crash it into a small two story building.
Looks cool but I bet it is deafening inside its cabin.
thats pretty crazy; wonder why he didn't just keep and put larger motors in it so that it might be able to actually fly.
Richard, as your flying over the beltway, don't forget to look in your rear view mirror for the Pentagons heat sink missle.
LOOK OUT! IT'S A SINK!!!
**KABOOM!**
Awesome, didn't know we had heat sink missiles. Is it a projectile that absorbs and dissipates heat?
Or did you mean heat seeking?
10 feet above the ground? how skinny do you have to be to achieve that height?
Ghostride the whip...
you would need a ladder to get back in.. but essentially i guess you could... walk under it while ghost ridin
Large Motors = More Weight which causes you to need Larger Motors.
That's a rather expensive, if not a great leafblower.
I wonder how many miles per gallon you'd get out of it.
The lucky buyer of this $131,700 "aircraft" also won an auction for a $18 bottle of schampoo...
Just strap a Segway to the bottom of it, wire it up, and the stability problems will be fixed.