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The Road to Timbuktu - by flying car!
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by LotusFlower | January 14, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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Last week saw the announcement of the possibility of a flying car being in full production and available to the general public but pilot Neil Laughton is already off to Timbuktu in the worlds first bio-fuelled flying car.
The words Timbuktu and flying car in themselves conjure up exciting images put them together and you have the amazing adventure that Laughton has just set out on.
London to Timbuktu by flying car!
The journey will take around 42 days and also highlights the use of bio-fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels.
A team of British adventurers has set out to complete a schoolboy fantasy - journeying for 42 days from London to Timbuktu by "flying car".
Led by pilot Neil Laughton, 45, of West Sussex, the team will make the 3,600-mile trip in a Parajet Skycar - a dune buggy with a fan and paragliding wing.
The Skycar and support team began their epic journey in London's Knightsbridge.
The bio-fuelled flying vehicle was designed by Dorset engineer Giles Cardozo, 29, in less than two years.
The team said it was the "world's first road legal bio-fuelled flying car".
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at 08:09 on January 15th, 2009
This is a parasail car based on the go-cart Parasail car. They have been around for some time though, however maybe not as Bio Fuel Parasail cars. Timbuktu, I would do that as well. Well there is a a real Flying car out now as well not a Parasail though. It was even on a post here on NP and it was one of your posts as well.
http://my.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/world-s-first-flying-car-prepares-take
at 13:09 on January 15th, 2009
Wow, 42 days is a long time - you would need a lot of vacation to just travel there and back, but this is great; I'm all for an eco-friendly way to travel.