What Could’ve Been: A CRX Aerocar!

By Jen Dunnaway

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Alex blogged some time ago about the Taylor Aerocar that was slated to appear at the Meadowbrook Concours. What I didn’t realize at the time is that we’ve got an Aerocar right here in Seattle at the Museum of Flight, where I did the obligatory tour while my dad was in town visiting this weekend. The Taylor venture was once a pretty promising one, and at one time it turns out that the company was planning to base a future model on a Honda CRX. That could’ve been kind of cool—probably good on gas, too! Follow the jump to see pics of the full-size Aerocar on display at the Museum of Flight.

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Posted at 12:31 am in Aerocar, CRX, Flying Cars, Honda, Jen Dunnaway

Comments

GTwildfire
Aug 13, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Oh and see the inverted rudder on the tail of that thing? USELESS.

GTwildfire
Aug 13, 2008 at 1:17 pm

LOL! Would take the wingspan of a C-130 and two Pratt & Whitneys to get that thing into the air!

Stewart
Aug 13, 2008 at 2:37 am

I’m waiting for someone to make a full size 90’s Roadmaster flying car

GTwildfire
Aug 13, 2008 at 2:05 am

If it was released from under a modified 747, I think it would have dropped like a stone. all that bulbus “fuselage” of car would have weighed down the nose, even without its engine under the hood.
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The Civic, like most cars isn’t designed for flight of course. Aeodynamically speaking I think a potato shot out of an air cannon has better flight properties. I’m amazed this was taken seriously.
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I think a car should be designed for flight, but have yet to see anything of that sort that’s not awkward either on the street or in the air.