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Chinese Company Makes ‘UFO’
June 17, 2008 10:48 AM
According to the AFP, a Chinese company has spent more than $4 million to develop a remotely controlled flying saucer that can hover up to about 1,000 yards and travel as fast as 50 mph.
The company says that saucer, which took more than 12 years to develop, could be used for aerial photography and geological surveys. But with satellites and remotely controlled drone planes with similar capabilities available already, perhaps the saucer is just a manifestation of that very human fascination with flying.
California-based company Moller has been in the personal flying vehicle game for years. In 1989, the company created the Moller Skycar M200X, which resembles this new flying saucer, but can hover only about 10 feet in the air. The newest version of the Skycar is expected to be available in the next three years, according to the company’s Web site.
Earlier this year, the world witnessed a Japanese man blast off in Italy in a homemade, one-man “flying chair” in a tribute to another great visionary: Leonardo da Vinci.
Click here to see a slideshow of the other creative ways humans have tried to take to the skies, without using a plane.
June 17, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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Wow! See what GM and Ford could have been developing the last 8 years instead of 'Gas Hogging' Muscle cars along with 'Gas Hogging' Farm Trucks that cost sky high amounts of money in order to buy and put full cover insurance to be able to legally drive it anywhere...More Money, More Money, More Money... That sounds like a privately owned company who made poor management decisions which made the backbone of America (you and me) not the silver spoon lucky ones who's relatives left millions of dollars. Anyways....The Backbone of America (us)are always on the look for better deals. The Backbone of America should not have to suffer while poor management brain storming companys decided to continue developing 'Gas Hogging and Earth Damaging' vehicles. Why should we give our tax money to "Big Wig" companys who made poor management final calls. I say no bail out money!!! Americans should be able to vote on what their tax money is spent on.....Not just the Congress!! Now these days more and more people are forgetting what the United States Constitution was created for...
Posted by: Jason Curtis | Mar 9, 2009 5:38:14 PM
These are the same people or should I say sheep that voted for bush.Very well said Jason!
Posted by: patdennis | Jun 8, 2009 5:50:30 PM
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