A 1970s flying car returns to the spotlight thanks to a BBC video
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The BBC Archive has published a 1970 video showing the Aerocar, a "flying car", in action. The footage shows the vehicle in motion and offers insight into how this curious invention of the era worked.
The Aerocar was designed in the United States by engineer Moulton Taylor. It was a vehicle that could travel on the road like an ordinary car and that, with a few modifications, could fly. To do so, its wings folded over the car when not in use, so that it took up little space on the street.
Although the idea of a car that flies generated great interest, the Aerocar was never manufactured in large quantities. Flying vehicles remain a difficult project for technical, economic and safety reasons, and today they exist mainly as prototypes or projects under development.
The BBC video serves as a reminder that the idea of flying cars has more than half a century of history. For readers in Spain, it is a curious example of how transport of the future was imagined in the past.
Sources: Microsiervos
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