need to own your very own flight car ? Will you settle for a prototype that never left the earth ? Well then you ’re in luck ! Because theBarrett - Jackson auctionin Arizona has a 1990 paradigm with your name on it .
The car is called the Sky Commuter and was produced in 1990 by a company in Washington state known as Sky Innovations . Started by former employees of Boeing , Sky Innovations was so full of hope back in the tardy 1980s . But they examine intimately at burn through money than get cars to aviate .
Sky Innovations set up shop just outdoors of Everett , Washington and reportedly spend over $ 6 million trying to make the upright take - off and land ( VTOL ) vanish car a practical reality . Stories syndicate by the Associated Press boasted that the car would one day cruise at 85 miles an hour at distances of 225 air mile .
The company even claimed that they had successfully performed test flight . Curiously , they never could produce any ocular documentation of these flights .
“ We do n’t need a lot of imbecile crashing these things like in the early days of ultralight flying , ” caller founder Fred Barker told the Seattle Times in 1989 . “ We want to make it foolproof . ”
Three prototypes were produced before the troupe folded ( leave about 60 very tempestuous investor in its backwash ) but this is conceive to be the only fomite that survived .
This flying car was last up for auction back in 2008 and was sell on eBay for about $ 130,000 . The description from that auction sale give some insight into the eyeglasses of the VTOL vehicle :
It has a operational electric gas assisted lexan house of cards canopy . Electric controled guiding driving and landing place lights . Electric Joystick and two invertebrate foot pedal on both side and the trade was meant to be controlled from either rump . Advanced front hyphen shell made of Carbonfiber and Kevlar . Rear engine and electronics bay approachable by tilting tooshie forward and removing the back panel . ( 3 ) Brobdingnagian 3 foot lifting fans CCW / CW gyration . This was made to take off in upright engagement and land . It can be land on water and float like a sauceboat and take off of water . The targeted dream was to lift above it all and not deal with the daily gridlock traffic . Nearly at the finishing line it all came to a abrupt full stop and all the years and investing and R&D and production , Remains in this one craft shown here .
secure thing none of today ’s flying car company are peddle silly vaporware like the Sky Commuter . I get wind some flying railroad car are justTWO year AWAY !
Images viaBarrett - Jacksonauctions , eBay and the 1990 Associated Press
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