Humans have always wanted to fly. As soon as there were planes and cars, many people saw a combination as the next step for personal transportation, and visionary engineers and inventors did their best to make the flying car (or the roadable plane) a reality. This book is a breezy account of hybrid vehicles and their creators, and of the intense drive that kept bringing inventors back to the drawing board despite repeated failures and the dictates of common sense. Illustrated with archival photos, this entertaining survey takes readers back as far as Icarus and forward into the present day, with a look toward the future. Includes author's note, source notes, bibliography, index.

From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.

Here for the first time in a single volume are three of Richard Bach's most compelling works about flight. From his edgy days as a USAF Alert pilot above Europe in an armed F84-F Thunderstreak during the Cold War to a meander across America in a 1929 biplane, Bach explores the extreme edges of the air, his airplane, and himself in glorious writing about how it feels to climb into a machine, leave the earth, and fly. Only a handful of writers have translated their experiences in the cockpit into books that have mesmerized generations.

“ROMBOY-THE REFORMER” is the story of Mr. Romboy son of Mr.Rajashekar a scientist at the Vismaya Space Research Organization, in Thiruvananthapuram,. His mother Mrs.Teressa hails from Belton Village in England near the birth place of Sir.Isaac Newton. Mr.Romboy has powers to control atomic bond and to bring back the dead ones alive by going back to time. He got the powers through meditation and attuning by a saint, Acharya Sachidananda who runs an ashram in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, who discovered “Samyam Yoga”. Mr.Romboy can travel through air in a capsule made by bonding the atoms in the air. The story has many incidents like flying a train through air, moving a mountain from “Cocober Islands”,a place near Madagascar to California in USA, travelling in flying sourcer like vehicles called dome scooters, dome cars, dome buses, dome carriers and dome city. Of these dome city is huge in size, about three square kilometres in area. It is a self contained habitat which can travel to outer space and remain there indefinitely. The invention of Newrom Electromagnetic Force Machine (NEF Machine) by Newrom Atomic Particle Reseach Institute(NAPRI) in UK, helped in replicating the powers of Mr.Romboy. At an exhibition conducted by NAPRI in Manali, ten human beings were converted to energy form and while reconverting them to the original form, an accident occurred and a new form of human being namely Spearhumans who can fly like a bat and move like a rocket were born. Spearhumans gave birth to Sackshumans and their offsprings are Microsacks humans, who also can fly like a bat and move like a rocket. Mr.Romboy and his wife Mrs.Sofia from Argentina and his son Mr. Romsten possessing similar powers has many rivals like Mr, Lee Pin Ching of Philippines, Jin Shan Ho, Guru Feng Hu and others of China. They also possesses powers like Mr. Romboy to control atomic bond and they travel in spherical shaped vehicles parked inside a cave under the mountain. The vehicle comes out of the cave by first bursting the mountain and after they emerged out, the bursted pieces re-join as if nothing had happened. Mr Romboy succeeded in persuading all nations to give up military related responsibilities and assets to the United Nations and use the money saved for human development. Thus Mr.Romboy reformed the world order by creating a Universal Central Government and banning all nations from possessing Military equipments.The world was however destroyed by bursting into pieces that turned to ashes. Later Mr.Romboy recreated the world by going back to time. He saved the life of 7.5 billion human beings who were temporarily shifted to the newly discovered star namely “Zorsky Star” and its planet” Maxearth” at a distance of 130 Million kilometers from earth. The story touches upon travel to a world within an atom similar to our world but of microscopic form. Human beings also discovered a huge world and huge creatures of sizes beyond our imagination. The story also touch upon the world of “Ghost” that live by absorbing our energy.Human beings were also successful in inventing flying machines called “Humsflier” that has changed the world of travel and habitation.The story ends with Mr. Romboy deciding to devote his life for research in physics. ---------------