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Welcome to Larisa English Club #3
What’s New? Flying Cars of Today.
History Topic! Flying Cars of The Past.
Conversation Topic. Talking about others.
Dialog Practice. Questions and Answers.
Basic Grammar Review. Question Words.
English Grammar. Adverbs and The Perfect Tense.
What’s New?
Flying Cars of Today
What’s new in the world of technology and inventions? Daily, we hear more and more about flying cars. Although the concept of flying cars has been just a dream for many inventors for years, soon, flying cars will be the norm. In Dubai located in The United Arab Emirates, the summer of 2017 will bring with it, a dream come true.
Flying taxi’s will be in the sky soon. With great anticipation, Dubai will be the first in the world to launch a flying taxi service. As incredible as this seems, it will be a reality in 2017.
To make this invention even more futuristic, the plan is to fly these taxi’s autonomously. In other words, just get in, push a button or two and away you go to your destination. In just a few minutes you will be flying over and around buildings. Who knows what else you will see as you travel above?
Autonomous flying taxi’s will take you to work, shopping, home and who knows where else? While many firms have been developing flying cars for years, a Chinese company will be the first to launch a flying taxi service in Dubai.
This is just the beginning of flying vehicles for commercial use. It could take several years before we see flying taxi’s in other cities. This is just the early stage of commercial development . The fact that this taxi will fly itself, makes it twice as interesting.
History Facts!
Flying Cars of The Past
The concept of a flying car goes back several centuries. For hundreds of years, many have drawn all kinds of concepts. Each and every one was different from the others. As with all inventions, a concept starts first, with reality being realized later. Sometimes much later. In the case of flying cars, lifetimes have passed with little progress until recently.
Here is more about the history of flying cars. Thank you Wiki!
In 1926, Henry Ford displayed an experimental single-seat aeroplane that he called the “sky flivver”. The project was abandoned two years later when a distance-record attempt flight crashed, killing the pilot. The Flivver was not a flying car at all, but it did get press attention at the time, exciting the public that they would have a mass-produced affordable airplane product that would be made, marketed, sold, and maintained just like an automobile. The airplane was to be as commonplace in the future as the Ford Model T of the time.
In 1956, the US Army’s Transportation Research Command began an investigation into “flying jeeps”, ducted-fan-based aircraft that were envisioned to be smaller and easier to fly than helicopters. In 1957, Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright, and Piasecki were assigned contracts for building and delivery of prototypes. They all delivered their prototypes; however, Piasecki’s VZ-8 was the most successful of the three. While it would normally operate close to the ground, it was capable of flying to several thousand feet, proving to be stable in flight. Nonetheless, the Army decided that the “Flying Jeep concept [was] unsuitable for the modern ....
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Welcome to Larisa English Club #3
What’s New? Flying Cars of Today.
History Topic! Flying Cars of The Past.
Conversation Topic. Talking about others.
Dialog Practice. Questions and Answers.
Basic Grammar Review. Question Words.
English Grammar. Adverbs and The Perfect Tense.
What’s New?
Flying Cars of Today
What’s new in the world of technology and inventions? Daily, we hear more and more about flying cars. Although the concept of flying cars has been just a dream for many inventors for years, soon, flying cars will be the norm. In Dubai located in The United Arab Emirates, the summer of 2017 will bring with it, a dream come true.
Flying taxi’s will be in the sky soon. With great anticipation, Dubai will be the first in the world to launch a flying taxi service. As incredible as this seems, it will be a reality in 2017.
To make this invention even more futuristic, the plan is to fly these taxi’s autonomously. In other words, just get in, push a button or two and away you go to your destination. In just a few minutes you will be flying over and around buildings. Who knows what else you will see as you travel above?
Autonomous flying taxi’s will take you to work, shopping, home and who knows where else? While many firms have been developing flying cars for years, a Chinese company will be the first to launch a flying taxi service in Dubai.
This is just the beginning of flying vehicles for commercial use. It could take several years before we see flying taxi’s in other cities. This is just the early stage of commercial development . The fact that this taxi will fly itself, makes it twice as interesting.
History Facts!
Flying Cars of The Past
The concept of a flying car goes back several centuries. For hundreds of years, many have drawn all kinds of concepts. Each and every one was different from the others. As with all inventions, a concept starts first, with reality being realized later. Sometimes much later. In the case of flying cars, lifetimes have passed with little progress until recently.
Here is more about the history of flying cars. Thank you Wiki!
In 1926, Henry Ford displayed an experimental single-seat aeroplane that he called the “sky flivver”. The project was abandoned two years later when a distance-record attempt flight crashed, killing the pilot. The Flivver was not a flying car at all, but it did get press attention at the time, exciting the public that they would have a mass-produced affordable airplane product that would be made, marketed, sold, and maintained just like an automobile. The airplane was to be as commonplace in the future as the Ford Model T of the time.
In 1956, the US Army’s Transportation Research Command began an investigation into “flying jeeps”, ducted-fan-based aircraft that were envisioned to be smaller and easier to fly than helicopters. In 1957, Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright, and Piasecki were assigned contracts for building and delivery of prototypes. They all delivered their prototypes; however, Piasecki’s VZ-8 was the most successful of the three. While it would normally operate close to the ground, it was capable of flying to several thousand feet, proving to be stable in flight. Nonetheless, the Army decided that the “Flying Jeep concept [was] unsuitable for the modern ....
Read more here https://larisaenglishclub.com/pdf-resources/larisa-english-club-3-pdf-version/
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