“When cities change, as populations move, the routes can move in a way that trains and rail, or highway infrastructure, cannot,” Harrison Wolf, the World Economic Forum’s Lead for Aerospace and Drones, said in 2020. Making sure you have two kinds of insurance is certainly one of those realities that The Jetsons never warned us about.This would require less upfront cost than building the infrastructure needed for more ground transportation - roads, railways, subway lines, etc. So this airplane is kind of superfulous to my needs.”īut if you’re thinking about buying this blast from the past don’t forget that you’ll need two kinds of insurance! “When I bought the thing, I was looking at the insurance and I had to have two different insurance policies: an aviation policy and then I had to get an auto policy,” Herrick said. So my interests began to migrate toward the golden age of aviation between the wars - in particular the aircraft that were almost lost to history. And no matter what it is you’re doing you can’t collect everything and you can’t be an expert in every area. But as time passes your tastes start to become more refined. “I like things that represent progress or tell a story. I like unusual things,” Herrick tells me. Takeoff speed in 55 mph and the airplane is controlled by the same steering wheel as is used for driving.īut why sell it? ”I like rarity.
Powered by a Lycoming O-320 Engine the propeller is mounted at the end of a long tail cone, the latter angled up for propeller clearance. In flight the wings are high and unobtrusive.
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Advanced for its time, most of the fuselage skin is of composite material and the car is front wheel drive. The AEROCAR features side-by-side seating for two. His most recent listing includes some of the specs:
Herrick’s Aerocar was first listed for sale in December 2011. Though it looks cumbersome, the vehicle was marketed in the early 1950s as being so effortless that a woman could do it “ without soiling her gloves.” The video below is a newsreel about the Aerocar from November 5, 1951. In order to take flight the Aerocar must be converted into an aircraft with wings that fold forward.
The Aerocar was designed by Moulton Taylor in 1949 and only five were ever produced. Herrick has over 40 aircraft in his private collection and the Aerocar was one of the first he ever purchased. He bought the flying car in the early 1990s from a man in Idaho and says he was drawn to the Aerocar just as many people in the latter half of the 20th century were. ”I was just at the tail end of that generation that kind of grew up with that dream of… well, I guess every generation has had that dream since the automobile - of a flying car,” Herrick told me. His flying car of the retro-future sports a yellow and black body and as you can see from the photo above, still works! Greg Herrick, an aircraft collector in Minneapolis, is selling his 1954 Taylor Aerocar N-101D with an asking price of $1.25 million. But people often forget flying cars have been around for over half a century. It seems every year we see companies like Terrafugia and Moller promise that the flying car will soon be an everyday reality. Ever dreamed of owning your own flying car… from the 1950s? If you happen to have $1.25 million lying around, you can make that happen!
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