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Convair Model 118 : ウィキペディア英語版 | Convair Model 118
The Convair Model 118 ConvAirCar (also known as the Hall Flying Automobile) was a prototype flying car of which two were built. Intended for mainstream consumers, two prototypes were built and flown. The first prototype was lost after a safe, but damaging, low fuel incident. Subsequently, the second prototype was rebuilt from the damaged aircraft and flown. By that time, little enthusiasm remained for the project and the program ended shortly thereafter.〔Yenne 1993, p. 117.〕 ==Design and development== Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (later Convair) was seeking entry into the post-war aviation boom with a mainstream flying car. Theodore P. "Ted" Hall had studied the concept of a flying car before World War II, with Consolidated unsuccessfully proposing the idea for use in Commando type raids. Following the end of the War, Hall and Tommy Thompson designed and developed the Convair Model 116 Flying Car featured in ''Popular Mechanics'' magazine in 1946,〔("Drive Right Up", April 1946, ''Popular Science'' ) Ted Hall's original concept "roadable" airplane which was the starting point for the Model 116〕 which consisted of a two-seat car body, powered by a rear mounted engine, with detachable monoplane wings and tail, fitted with their own tractor configuration Franklin 4A4 engine driving a two bladed wooden propeller. This flew on July 12, 1946, completing 66 test flights.〔Wegg 1990, p. 184.〕
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