My Other Car Is a Podcopter Bumper sticker in the year 2015?
2025? Ever? - By Mark Gatlin - Air & Space magazine, January
2008 You head out the door and down to the street to catch your
ride to work. The aircraft is waiting. The only sound is the low
hum of ducted fans at the rear. Where you’d once expected a
pilot, there is instead a panel of blinking lights. To the left
and right, more vehicles drop out of the morning sky to pick up
your neighbors. You wave a card that opens the door, enters your
destination into the flight planner, and debits your account,
then spend the quiet, 20-minute commute reading, dozing, or
sharing a laugh with your seatmate. The scene sounds like a
fantasy because, despite great interest and the effects of “The
Jetsons” cartoon on a generation of youth, the promise of
affordable, automated flying commuter craft remains unfulfilled.
True, there are a plethora of small flying craft around—light
sport and ultralights—but there is still no aircraft that,
compared to a car, is as easy