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Ford Pinto Achieves Flight Through Sheer Audacity

In 1971 two Northrop-trained engineers in Van Nuys set out to build a flying car called the AVE Mizar , and the design was about as literal as it sounds: they bolted the back half of a Cessna Skymaster — wings, twin tail booms, and a propeller — onto a Ford Pinto. Read the rest…