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Sethodine

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C'mon! Get real! Your evil plan is to build a flying car, isn't it?
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Maaaaaybe?
 

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Then there's this company -- Samson Motorworks -- which is building a pusher-type flying car with auto-retractable wings, from the ground-up. Oh, and once they have that done, they'll release a version that doesn't fly and is thus a prop-driven 3-wheeled vehicle. I keep trying to tell them they should work on the 3-wheeled vehicle first, release that, and gain some capital, but NOOOOO.
 

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Then there's this company -- Samson Motorworks -- which is building a pusher-type flying car with auto-retractable wings, from the ground-up. Oh, and once they have that done, they'll release a version that doesn't fly and is thus a prop-driven 3-wheeled vehicle. I keep trying to tell them they should work on the 3-wheeled vehicle first, release that, and gain some capital, but NOOOOO.
A prop driven 3 wheel? I for one would not want to be anywhere behind them; the debris that they would kick out could be harmful to your health not to mention what it would do to your car.
 
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Granted, I wouldn't want to take it on a country dirt road, but tooling down I-35 shouldn't be a problem. Unless you count being squished by speeding truckers a problem.
 

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Don't forget Honda in air and water cooled engines all aluminum with iron or steel sleeves since 1960 in my personal experience. Ya can't kill a Honda! Don't worry about this feature. Worry excessively about three cylinders in line with NO COOLANT PASSAGES BETWEEN ADJACENT CYLINDERS!

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