Episode 7 - The Flying Car - a podcast by Robert Bacon

They quickly got to work on their flying vehicle and in just two years they had two prototypes and three more under construction. Well you obviously can’t work that quick by engineering something from the ground up. They instead took two already existing production models and put them together. The actual flying mechanism was a Cessna Skymaster. The Skymaster (great name) is a twin-engine civil utility aircraft that had been under production since 1965. I looked it up and it appears to have a good flight record and is a good plane. So they just took that plane and cut off the front of it. If you look at pictures you’ll see that it’s the wings and and rutters and everything, just the part where the pilot sits is cut off. The car that they chose was the Ford Pinto. (more on the podcast)

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