Flying Hovercars

The use of the nuclear powered moon scooter as the chief method of getting about in Bracknell is well known but it could so easily have been different. This prototype flying hovercar was one of the most hotly anticipated items ever to be featured in the Bracknell Forest Standard. Disappointingly, like so many other seemingly ace ideas including the Sinclair C5, the flying hovercar was critically flawed. Keen to reduce the weight of the thing in order to enable flight, the designers decided to omit any fuel storage, preferring to rely on mains power. This meant that upon take off, the range of the flying hovercar was limited, in the case of the pictured prototype, to the 36 inch length of the flex between the craft and the mains socket.