Summary
"Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"--Provided by publisher. Full description
- First, the dream
- Gustave Whitehead's condor
- Trajan Vuia's aƩroplane-automobile
- Glenn Curtiss's autoplane
- Felix Longobardi's combination vehicle
- Henry Ford's flying flivver
- Waldo Waterman's arrowbile
- Harold Pitcairn's autogyro
- Joseph Gwinn's aircar
- R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion omnidirectional human transport
- William Bushnell Stout's skycar
- Theodore P. Hall's convaircar
- Robert Fulton's airphibian
- Daniel Zuck's plane-mobile
- Moulton b. Taylor's aerocar
- Into the future.