The Fying Pinto !!
Yes it was a real plane/car, yes it did fly (Google it) and yes it did kill the people who flew it.
Car body is a much modified 1/43 die-cast dragster. Plane parts are from 1/48 Hawk O-2 kit.
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab203/hawkeye2an/Models%201/flyingpinto2.jpg
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab203/hawkeye2an/Models%201/flyingpinto1.jpg
Very impressive!..Nice work! Thanks for sharing! Dave.
That is very cool. Thx for sharing.
Good Lord. Only in America …
That’s too cool. Very nice.
brilliant model. just read the vehicle history. the designer was northrop trained, and he built something northrop would have been ashamed of (quality wise). crash was put down to bad welds. sheet metal screws and poor engineering. strut seperated from the car, wings folded, everything crashed a burned.
History aside. Fantastic model. looks really good.
What we have here is an elaborate rear-end-collision avoidance device. It was supposed to look like it was designed to get the Pinto airborne, but in reality it allowed the driver to be protected from nearly all sides–but especially the back. It would have just been plain embarrassing to call it anything but a plane-car. [*-)]
Enough fooling around. That is a very nice build, very sharp.
That is such a bad idea…
Looks sharp though.
Every so often, we still get these “inventors” who think that airplane/car combinations will be the next great thing.
Fascinating vision: Entire fleets of these car/plane combos with commuters flying in from the suburbs while texting and/or yapping on their cell phones, flying into a tree here, dropping through a roof there.
Stirs the blood just to think of it.[:)]
Wasn’t this, or similar, used in an early James Bond movie?
Same idea but that was a model of a Matador with a jet engine. This thing actually flew, killing the two brainiacs that invented it. The crash was due to sheet metal screws being used to fasten the plane parts to the car. Can you say…Darwin ? !!!
And now it exists as a reality
Interresting, but I’ll stay with my fold-up bicycle in the baggage compartment.
They should’ve used duct tape.[:D]
At least you have to have a pilots licence[8-|]
