Curtiss Autoplane. Fulton Airphibian. Taylor Aerocar. Businesses and entrepreneurs have been promising a mass-produced flying car for more than a century. None have succeeded, but that hasn’t… ...

Curtiss Autoplane. Fulton Airphibian. Taylor Aerocar. Businesses and entrepreneurs have been promising a mass-produced flying car for more than a century. None have succeeded, but that hasn’t ...

Less a flying car than a driving airplane, the “Airphibian” was a plane/auto hybrid designed and built by Robert Fulton. In 1950, it became the first “roadable aircraft” to be certified by ...

But airphibian-builder Fulton put the blame on the kind of planes being made. Said he: “Even if we had an airport every five miles, you could still be 2½ miles from your destination when you ...

NEWTOWN - Robert E. Fulton, Jr., a noted inventor and adventurer, died Friday at the age of 95. Fulton's son, Rawn Fulton, said his father died at home of natural causes. "He was an extraordinary ...

Inventor Robert Edison Fulton, Jr., died last Friday in Connecticut at the age of 95. One of his many inventions was the 1940s Airphibian, a combination of a plane and a car, which he flew and ...

FULTON -- Robert E. Fulton Jr., an adventurous inventor whose more than 70 patents included a car that could fly and a rescue system for spies behind enemy lines, died Friday at his home in ...

The Airphibian, a flying car, or "roadable plane", was demonstrated by him on both sides of the Atlantic; it used the same controls for flying and driving, travelled at 50mph on land and 110mph in ...

Curtiss Autoplane. Fulton Airphibian. Taylor Aerocar. Businesses and entrepreneurs have been promising a mass-produced flying car for more than a century. None have succeeded, but that hasn’t ...