Two people have been injured after an experimental flying car crashed into a tree
Friday morning near a school in Vernon, B.C., Canada.
The experimental aircraft has a plane engine, propeller and parachute connected to a dune
buggy The aircraft clipped a fence behind Vernon's Ellison Elementary School, hit the tree and crashed a few metres from school property just before 9 a.m. PT. Made by a Florida company, the flying car is a combination of a plane engine, propeller and parasail attached to a dune buggy. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk said there are indications the contraption had taken off from the airport in Vernon. "It looked like it was on its approach," Molendyk said. "There was motor sound and people looked up and it got into trouble and came through the fence and into the trees here." Molendyk said the pilot and his passenger had to be pulled from the tree. They suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital.

They have since been released." No one was hurt on the ground, although children from the school were preparing on the nearby grounds for a track and field day. The Maverick can travel at speeds up to 160 kilometres per hour on land and up to 65 kilometers per hour in the air. It's believed Kelowna, B.C., resident Ray Siebring recently brought the fifth-ever flying car to Canada as a prototype and has been checking it out in a series of test flights across the Okanagan.
A release from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) confirmed the flying car was "an American corporately registered I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute" that had crashed. The vehicle, known as "Maverick," uses a 100-metre runway to take off and flies under a
parasail.

But it also needs a 100-metre runway to make a safe landing. According to the manufacturer's website, the car can travel at speeds up to 160 kilometers per hour on land and up to 65 kilometres per hour in the air. It costs at least $94,000 to purchase.

I know that the Nigerian government are placing others for some very soon.
And I believe Lagos need more of this type of cars, bye to traffic Jam.

If a car starts flying then i don't know if it should still be called a car or an airplane.

Hmmmm! New invetion, but I wonder ђ๏ฬ it would look like when maany people own it, there would be air collitions lolzzz

Experiment gone awry, lol

phoneport: I know that the Nigerian government are placing others for some very soon.
And I believe Lagos need more of this type of cars, bye to traffic Jam.

bye 2 traffic jam, welcome air jam

tolex34:
bye 2 traffic jam, welcome air jam

No serious Lagos need this to solve a lot of problems.
Am still in one useless holdup right now, we are not moving nor even crawling.
And my appointment is 8:30am.
God help me.

phoneport: I know that the Nigerian government are placing others for some very soon.
And I believe Lagos need more of this type of cars, bye to traffic Jam.

Dunce

If na naija, na electric pole e for jam!

Na wa 4 oyibo dem

............and we call it aircar

phoneport: I know that the Nigerian government are placing others for some very soon.
And I believe Lagos need more of this type of cars, bye to traffic Jam.

Electric wire and Poles no go let am work for Naija

Afam4eva: If a car starts flying then i don't know if it should still be called a car or an airplane.

It will be called Erica airicar!

Afam4eva: If a car starts flying then i don't know if it should still be called a car or an airplane.

It will be called carplane we need some of those here ASAP

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If the North Americans are having problems engineering a flying car....they should talk to our resident expert here in Africa ... Mr Barnabas Sibanda

Hehehehe! Where is my able fashola? If this car passes testing stage my fashola would soon recomend it for lagos to avoid boko haram attacks on ground! I like baba fashoo! Bt this is a good invention btw

and come to think of it, this African freind of mine did this some years ago in 1994! Seriously, these oyibo guys are backward! Africans rock http://www.techzim.co.zw/2013/01/bulawayo-helicopter-man-heres-to-the-crazy-ones/

Keep it up dudes,


Perfection rarely comes at a single shot!

Na wa o! Me lovy the car8-)

mosun_ade:

Dunce

Even if he said other instead of order,does that warrant you calling him a dunce? and dontcha think you da real deal dunce for tha?...
@op,flying cars does'nt seem to belong to this already advanced generation,maybe da era of batman future...

supaeagles: If they are having problems designing a flying car....they should talk to our African resident expert ... Mr Barnabas Sibanda

That blue One looks like a local Apache !

NOT EVERYONE GETS IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. PERSEVERANCE IS THE FATHER OF ALL INVENTIONS.

One thing I know for sure is that this Oyinbos will never give up on perfecting this invention. They will address all potential concerns and launch it.

For some reason, all the flying cars I'v seen so far look 'em tricycles the use in india as taxi's.....

Na that time lasma go come tell me where them wan stay. lol

I tire for dis oyibo peeps sef, y experiment on a residential route huh??
Nice one i must say

Try and Error, practise make perfect

[quote author=supaeagles]If they are having problems designing a flying car....they should talk to our African resident expert this guy nd his welder friend just de decieve themselfs,from engineering perspective,there is no space for engine nd the strenght of the blade/rotor cannot carry the weight of the craft.

Cars should remain on the ground

Afam4eva: If a car starts flying then i don't know if it should still be called a car or an airplane.

Aircar should be a better name.