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The Flying Car Has Finally Arrived (SEE PHOTOS): by tonychristopher: 2:59pm On Apr 16, 2015
While some people are thinking of how to push them into lagoos some people are saying that Education is evil, while majority are saying 80yr old can rule Nigeria but one thing for sure is that Nigerian and Black man is left behind, some dude in Nnewi built a ccar they said is igbo made, Agbalaka (Dr.) Gave a hiv drug they messed it up, all because its a black man now while we are at our tribal politics of giving out two square meal a day oyibo is building flying car whereas we have refused to support our own innoosson . We call our own technology IGBO MADE then rely on Western and Easter tech to salvage us.Why are we backward as a race. Now the USA Has The Flying Car Has Finally Arrived (SEE PHOTOS):

First, hear it all from the man who made it all possible. His name is Carl Dietrich, he is the chief executive and co-founder of Terrafugia, an aerospace company. Mr Carl has been working to bring consumers to the prospect of a practical flying car, envisioning a vehicle that does not require its operator to be a trained pilot. The company, Terrafugia, announced the concept of TF-X, a four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric car that can do vertical take-offs and landings.

The good thing is that the flying car operator won't need to have the skills of a pilot to fly it...
"Once you're flying, the actual operation of all the flight control surfaces is going to be computer controlled because, frankly, the computer can do it better than a pilot.

"They don't need to know those things because the computer is plugged in to a data network that automatically helps them plan the flight path, avoid other air traffic and air space restrictions, things of that nature," says Mr Carl. He explains that operators would still have to make high-level, critical decisions, like determining whether it's safe to take off and land or approve the landing zone in advance.

"Anything that happens on the ground, the person is going to make a call," says Mr Carl.

Carl Dietrich

Terrafugia’s CEO/CTO, Co-Founder, received his BS, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shortly after being selected as the 2006 winner of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovation. Carl was additionally recognized by the Aero/Astro Department at MIT as one of sixteen exceptional graduates under the age of 35. Carl has also been named as one of the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" in 2009. He has been a private pilot since the age of seventeen.

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