Flying Cars!!

      You read the title right, really no introduction required but I’m going to share a quick anecdote with you before getting much more into it. This is so you can share the feeling of utter excitement translating into epic disappointment along with me, which is exactly how you will feel after reading this blog. So I’m at a friend’s house on Sunday burying my sorrow into countless bottles of Bud Light while watching the Patriots lose to the Jets, when another friend of mine decides to lighten up the mood and informs me that there are flying cars being made in Massachusetts. For the moment her mission was accomplished, as I sat there humming the Jetsons theme song in my head and thinking about hopping in my purple Chrysler Cirrus to fly to Wendys for some spicy chicken nuggets (yeah my car is purple but it would still be badass if it could fly). 
       I came back down to Earth long enough to hear both of my friends still talking about the flying cars and how Massachusetts isn’t he first to start developing these magic machines. What?! How is this not on every news network every night? Next thing I think I am going to blog about this and here I am however I am not feeling as whimsical as I was upon first hearing about these flying cars and here is why. I had to know more about this so I went home and Googled my ass off to find out these “flying cars” are also known as personal planes. Well that doesn’t sound as cool or futuristic now does it?  Terrafugia is a four year old Massachusetts company that has developed these mini-aircrafts that have the ability to fold up its wings and store them while on the ground (okay so that part is still pretty cool). The Transition Roadable Aircraft is what they have been working on for the past two years and while they won’t share what the top speed is for it on the road they do inform us that it travels 115 mph in the air. Mind you most airplanes can travel at about 500-700 mph depending on the size. That's not all folks these so called flying cars also require a runway for take off which means if your stuck in a traffic jam and want to just fly away think again.
       Maybe I shouldn't bash these personal planes too much, I mean they are a step in the right direction. They are a step into the future. If there are companies out there producing these personal planes then sooner than later these engineers should find a way to make us like the Jetsons right? I don't know and to tell you the truth I'm impatient like the rest of my fellow Americans. I don't want to wait, I want my future now.