Editing Flying car (section)

===Anticipation===
[[File:Bristol Siddeley Flying car model - 26222188948.jpg|thumb|Bristol Siddeley flying car model]]

Flying cars have been under development since the early days of motor transport and aviation, and many futurologists have predicted their imminent arrival. Aircraft manufacturer [[Glenn Curtiss]] unveiled his unflyable [[Curtiss Autoplane|Autoplane]] in 1917. In 1940, vehicle manufacturer [[Henry Ford]] predicted that; "Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.”<ref name="popsci2001">''Popular Science:'' [http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2001-12/looking-back-henry-fords-flivver Looking back at Henry Ford's Flivver: A plane-car for the man of average means], December 2001 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116082811/http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/8ca6d4d03cb84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html |date=16 November 2007 }}</ref>

From 1945, industrial designer [[Norman Bel Geddes]] promoted his concept for a streamlined flying car with folding wings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Norman Bel Geddes Database |url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/nbgpublic/details.cfm?id=412 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=norman.hrc.utexas.edu}}</ref> In the late 1950s, [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]'s Advanced Design studio publicised a 3/8 scale concept car model, the Volante Tri-Athodyne. It featured three ducted fans, each with its own motor, that would lift it off the ground and move it through the air. Ford admitted that "the day where there will be an aero-car in every garage is still some time off", also suggesting that "the Volante indicates one direction that the styling of such a vehicle would take".<ref name="yesterday"/><ref name="auto"/>