A Moment Of Inspiration For Sunday: The I-TEC Flying Auto

A Green Shoots nominee, without a doubt. A wonderful contrast to the darkness visited upon the culture by WeimarBen, Timmy, the ECB, and the ClownCircus.

Steve Saint, the son of a missionary doctor, one of that group of four murdered by tribesmen in South America in the late fifties (another story, another day--or look up 'Jim Elliott), has created what appears to be a workable drive/fly auto.

This promotional video was produced about his drive from Florida to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, about 1500 miles. It's street-legal, with Florida tags. 0-60 in under four seconds, about 25 mpg, and with the wing deployed, and its push-prop enganged, it flies about 40 mph. Wouldn't want to run into a thunderstorm with it, but hey!--look at this thing, ya'll! It really could have a lot of uses. It can be fitted with pontoons, and run over water. It can drive over ice. There are a lot of hard-to-reach places in this country, and this could reach them, especially when roads are closed.

Not an Obama recovery sign to be seen on it. Wonder why....wonder why....

And his real reason to develop and market it? To be able to fund production of this sort of aircraft for missionary pilots in the bush and jungles--for humanitarian relief.

A big cheer for these folks. Let's just hope the soulless beings who run our guv'mint don't take too much notice.

We wouldn't want both entreprenurial spirit and Christian Charity to have a chance to flourish in the open now, would we? Folks might get all ambitious and uppity, decide they can do without Himself, Ben, Timmy and Big Sis.

They might (OMG!!) succeed.

Jest sayin'...

In the meantime, the boys at Top Gear could have a ball with this! Imagine The Stig behind the wheel...or perhaps Captain Slow!