Remembering the flying Ford Pinto Print
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Monday, 19 October 2009 19:46

Henry Smolinski and Harold Blake flight disasterAmerican engineers Henry Smolinski and Harold Blake had a crazy dream. They wanted to build the first flying car, so they bolted the wings of a Cessna light aircraft to the roof of a Ford Pinto, fitted it with cabin controls and named it the Mizar.

On a test flight two years after developing the half-Cessna, half-Ford Pinto car the wigs fell off in flight and the vessel crashed. Both inventors, who piloted the plane, on board died in the crash.


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