Why a Flying House?



WHY A FLYING HOUSE?


When one tries to think of the best possible material object to own, a few things spring to mind... A house, a yacht, a private jet, and a luxury car. The concept of the flying house combines all of them together. Building it is only logical. FHP is not only an awareness raising organization to promote and educate about the sheer hedonistic luxury that is a flying house. It is also a scientific interdisciplinary think tank where we integrate the latest findings in heavier than air flight to eventually attempt a prototype.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Flying Car and Hover Car

A second look at stylistic families of levitating vehicles.

Flying cars fall into roughly three categories. 1) We got older retro future designs that still have charm and often have rather bright colors ranging from bright reds to yellows. They have airplane-esque curved protrusions. These are now often redone in decopunk or atompunk art realms that reduce the doofyness aspect somewhat and add glossy magazine sleekness. They often look unnecessarily large or heavy yet appear sturdy and reliable. 2) We got these often white or light grey futuristic ergonomic designs that look more like MacBook attachments than cars. A nearly spherical Volkswagen is an example. They have a relatively flimsy plastic feel to them even if their Segway-esque technological appearance looks less outdated in the 21st century conception of what it means to comfortably fly. Naturally, this stylistic family makes sense if it is a hover car tied to a specifically designed highway. Functional uniformity and minimalism would then guide the look of swarms of these cars guided in synch in large groups. 3) Finally, we got emerging hybridization of these two families best represented by the i7 below. They try to create a bridge between modernist deco aesthetics of the 1930s-1950s and aesthetics of ergonomics of the iPhone era. It may be argued that a hybrid aesthetic is what will re-ignite flying car concept going forward since it tries to fuse the often at odds a) luxurious look b) metallic material sturdiness, and c) computerized multifunctional high tech package.












































Sunday, October 20, 2013

Futuristic Airships and Flying Yachts - made possible by nanotech composite materials


Rigid body airships with frame constructed out of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer material 


80 years ago, dirigibles transported 90 people and 10 tons of cargo for weeks at a time. Modern technological breakthroughs in computer controlled propulsion, material science, aerodynamic modeling, and energy conversion techniques opens up a new era in leisurely flying yachts, flying cruise ships, and floating transport. Amazing specific strength of composite materials allows large, very strong, and ultra light living quarters. A mobile home from conventional materials weighs around 6 tons. Recently tested 170 meter long airship prototype lifts about 66 tons. Private companies in collaboration with NASA and the military are developing dirigibles capable of substantially greater cargo loads.























Ultimately, of course this coincides