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The future of travel is looking to be both fast AND fuel-efficient. Swiss aeronautical designers claim that a full-scale model of their SmartFish project will be able to carry two people at 560mph using less fuel than a car.

The SmartFish project is a lightweight, fuel-efficient hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft. The Swiss design team has pumped five years' worth of work into the project, which is finally at the small model prototype phase. The HyFish prototype also relies on "an aerodynamic configuration known as a lifting body" as well as its fuel-cell turbofan technology in order to compensate for its small wingspan.

The designers behind the SmartFish project also claim that construction is simple and since it has few moving parts and low operating and maintenance costs, it shouldn't be too expensive to build. There are currently two vehicle types planned for the SmartFish project. The first is a 20-foot two-seater, and the second is a vehicle designed to carry 20 people on board. You can check out a video of it in action at the SmartFish website.

- Source: [Smartfish]

eh that's cool, but i really doubt I'll be seeing it in my time

beaner2k6 Wrote:eh that's cool, but i really doubt I'll be seeing it in my time

:rofl: U never know Haha

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that looks cool man!!!!!!!!!

wow, the population is multiplying and this thing goes 560mph. theres not even turn signals lol, its gonna be hard flying this thing if its gonna take place of the car...

ix_stylez Wrote:wow, the population is multiplying and this thing goes 560mph. theres not even turn signals lol, its gonna be hard flying this thing if its gonna take place of the car...

yeah that will be a real headache :)

Might be cheap, but training might prove otherwise.
Also expect traffic related injuries to increase if this is adopted.

Lol, but it's the first step towards those sci-fi "flying cars".

ix_stylez Wrote:wow, the population is multiplying and this thing goes 560mph. theres not even turn signals lol, its gonna be hard flying this thing if its gonna take place of the car...

that's why i prolly won't be seeing it in my time, it took awhile to control traffic to have it at todays stage, and it flies, in my opinion its gonna take even longer to incorporate somehting like that into a society than cars did

wow looks cool realllly problems always take place no pain no gain as some people say but i thinkthis is stil a distant dream