The Editor's Letter

As the credit crunch tightens, it seems that people are looking for many different ways to keep flying, while also trying to keep the price down. For some people this will mean switching from helicopters to aeroplanes, for others it will mean changing from a turbine helicopter to a piston engine helicopter, for some it will mean moving across to try gyrocopters, and for others again it will involve looking at the increasing forms of ‘alternative aviation’, including the flying car and the Flyke, the flying bike.

The flying car was at Cholmondeley giving a display. This particular model is made by Parajet, has a car chassis, a pusher engine and a parachute-wing for lift. It has recently flown from London to Timbuktu in Africa. Although most of the journey in Europe was actually done on the ground, in Africa they used the car’s flying capabilities more and more.....