But, until now, the elusive dream as yet unfulfilled, was that amazing flying car.
Well, if the advance notices are correct, the day when we can take to the skies in our own private cars is closer than ever, and perhaps as close as the year after next!
Well hold onto your hat!
Terrafugia is now working on an advanced model called the TF-X, a four person, fixed wing aircraft with electrical assist for takeoff and landing. And, as envisioned, you will not need a pilots license as the car will fly itself.
You would simply program the destination and the car would do the rest, tying into a new international computer network that would integrate control and monitoring functions for all aircraft. Stuck in traffic? No problem. Tell the car to take you home and small propellors would deploy in a vertical position lifting you out of traffic and into the air, where a larger prop would send you on your way. I want one!
Technology like this is the product of the age in which we live. It is a time when breakthroughs in not only knowledge but also the pace at which breakthroughs occur is accelerating daily. The future is here.
A push to increase awareness of STEM education is sweeping across the country faster than the TF-X could lift you out of traffic on the Santa Monica freeway.
And then, the dreams of today may not need to wait quite so long to realize as did the dream of a flying car.
Personally, I want that little puppy right now.
Oh, just one drawback. Before you start running off to plunk down your down payment on the TF-X, take this into consideration. The starting price is expected to be well over $200,000. I wonder if that includes leather seats?
Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fieldsof science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN. He also spent ten years coordinating assembly programs for the elementary school where his own children went to school.