DailyDirt: Flying Around Everywhere..?

The promise of flying cars and a future like the Jetsons obviously hasn't come to pass, but people are still working on it. Yes, drivers haven't even mastered safely navigating roads, and adding another dimension and the risk of falling out of the sky isn't going to help. Still, we shouldn't let these challenges prevent us from trying to create an awesome and boundless future of flying safely to work or school or a grocery store. Maybe we'll have groceries delivered by drones, instead of needing to shop for them in person, but traveling everyday by flying shouldn't just be for the birds.

• Larry Page owns not just one, but two flying car companies. Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk are the companies, out of about a dozen, that are working on some kind of flying car for personal transportation. [url]
• Huge solar-powered airships from China could be floating 20 kilometers up in the sky someday. The Yuanmeng airship has been tested for 24 hours already, and it has a 5-7 ton payload capability. [url]
• The solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, recently landed in NYC and is preparing to cross the Atlantic next. This solar-powered plane is setting some records for endurance (not speed), but presumably the technology will get better and this demonstration will lead to more solar-powered flights around the world. [url]

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