FLYING MOTOR CAR

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 12

FLYING MOTOR CAR

REMARKABLE COMBINATION British and American engineers are co-operating in one of the most interesting personal travel experiments of recent years. Its object is the production of a two-seat readable autogiro for the American Department of Commerce. A British aero engine is being fitted. The machine is a development of the “ autodynamio ” or direct takeoff gyroplane. It gives motor car accommodation, with a closed cabin and side-by-side seating, and it will run on the road or in the air. When the travellers decide to exchange the highway for the airway they extend the machine’s rotor blades, do a jump take-off,.and continue their journey as a fully-fledged autogiro. Fascinating possibilities are opened up by the_ design of this readable autogiro, for it embodies a solution to the problem of terminal communications for private aeroplane owners. Large air line organisations are able without difficulty to provide their own road transport to and from their aerodromes, but the private aeroplane owner must usually rely upon being able to hire a car.

'The readable autogiro, if it fulfils the expectations of its designers, will be able to give door-to-door communication to its owner without forcing him at any time to call upon the public transport organisations. The undercarriage has three wheels, And these are also the road wheels. Two are at the front, and are used for steering, and one is at the back and is used for driving.