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866:"Ford Scientific Research Laboratory Reaches 50 Year Milestone"
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644:"1959 Curtiss-Wright Air Car 2500 – Like Riding on a Cloud…"
721:"This Unbelievable 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car"
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695:"1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car"
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210:Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire
154:Efforts to build MagLev hover cars
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514:Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
457:Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
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33:hover car, based on tesla model X
800:"June 1960: Floating a new idea"
668:Wojdyla, Ben (2 February 2015).
642:Brophy, Jim (4 September 2021).
751:U.S. Army Transportation Museum
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820:– via theengineer.co.uk.
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571:Flying car
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