# What is this aircraft?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 7, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-aircraft/712020 "2015-02-07T01:19:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-aircraft/712020/21 "2015-02-07T16:18:29Z")

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Remember that lifting bodies were carried aloft and _dropped_. They were incapable of taking off on their own.

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-aircraft/712020/22 "2015-02-07T20:59:37Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Terrafugia has long been calling their project a “roadable airplane”, not a “flying car”.
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> That terminology speaks volumes to what they’re doing. They’re trying to build an airplane that doesn’t leave you stranded at the destination airport, dependent on taxis or Avis to finish your journey. There is no expectation anyone other than pilots with pilot mindsets and pilot skill sets and aircraft-owner sized budgets will ever own or use one. This is emphatically \*not \*a “flying car for the masses”.

Even so I still don’t think its a viable, practical idea. If you could afford the above you can also afford to live in an [airpark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airpark) now…

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