TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glass,Andrew
TI  - Flying cars: the true story 
SN  - 0618984828 (hardcover)
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Boston, New York
PB  - Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Flying automobiles
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106) and index; First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's a©♭roplane-automobile -- Glenn Curtiss's autoplane -- Felix Longobardi's combination vehicle -- Henry Ford's flying flivver -- Waldo Waterman's arrowbile -- Harold Pitcairn's autogyro -- Joseph Gwinn's aircar -- R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion omnidirectional human transport -- William Bushnell Stout's skycar -- Theodore P. Hall's convaircar -- Robert Fulton's airphibian -- Daniel Zuck's plane-mobile -- Moulton b. Taylor's aerocar -- Into the future; Ages 9-12
N2  - "Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"--
ER  -