Would you buy a flying car from this man?

[zeitghost]

Uncle Clive's latest wizard wheeze...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7481940.stm

[BrilloPad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Catt

I met him while in Fathes 4 Justice - he made various claims about Clive Sinclair.

[KathyWoolfe]

Uncle Clive's latest wizard wheeze...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7481940.stm

Anyone who invents an umberella strong enough to stop the user being crushed to death by a falling flying machine plus their "pilot" and/or passenger should make millions......

[TimberWolf]

Strangley enough he's provided no details on how this might work. He might want to think smaller and start with a fuel powered craft first. "Petrol not reliable enough...would have to manoeuvre itself" This is a big step up from powering a tricycle with a washing machine motor.

I just did a quick calculation and if a 200Kg (mass of man + machine) were powered by a 1m fan, rather than wings, the batteries would need to put out 22KW (22 electric fire bars) to hover.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Poor old Clive, I think he's running out of steam in his old age and trying to create some PR buzz with wacky idea's.

The Spectrum was his company's best invention, shame they sold the brand/technology to Alan Michael Sugar Trading (Amstrad).

[Churchill]

Strangley enough he's provided no details on how this might work. He might want to think smaller and start with a fuel powered craft first. "Petrol not reliable enough...would have to manoeuvre itself" This is a big step up from powering a tricycle with a washing machine motor.

I just did a quick calculation and if a 200Kg (mass of man + machine) were powered by a 1m fan, rather than wings, the batteries would need to put out 22KW (22 electric fire bars) to hover.

At least if you use petrol the aircraft gets lighter whilst using the fuel... With batteries you'd be carrying the dead weight...

[TimberWolf]

At least if you use petrol the aircraft gets lighter whilst using the fuel... With batteries you'd be carrying the dead weight...

Plus petrol has at least 10 times the energy density of batteries, i.e. much lighter.

[Charles Foster Kane]

He's an Inventor, stop being constricted by what's already been invented. Anyone with any common sense would know he's invented an anti gravity propulsion system.

[Archangel]

He's an Inventor, stop being constricted by what's already been invented. Anyone with any common sense would know he's invented an anti gravity propulsion system.

**** off,

Seriously

[Platypus]

The Spectrum was his company's best invention

What did he invent to create the Spectrum?

As I recall, it used standard components although he did put them together very cheaply to make a functional machine, but it's not like it was the first microcomputer.