![]() But what he really wanted me to see was that this thing was real-that the flying car is no longer in that jetpack realm of promising technology that never quite arrives. ![]() He encouraged me to climb in and get a feel for the feng shui of the driver’s seat, the view out the windshield, the sense of balance. Off in the far side of the hangar sat his original wooden mock-up of the chassis, a three-wheeled aerodynamic lozenge right out of a manga enthusiast’s idea of a speed racer. “Eight pounds,” he said, which, for a structural component of an airplane, is almost nothing. It floated in my hand, light as balsa wood. His engineer was busy burnishing the parabolic slope of the carbon-fiber finish. In the last hangar off the runway in Prineville, Oregon, Sam Bousfield locked down one of the wings to his flying car. Sam Bousfield, pictured here in a mock-up of the Switchblade, worked with Boeing engineers refining wind-tunnel construction before launching Samson Motorworks.
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