World’s First Biofuel-Powered Flying Dune Buggy

Giles Cardozo, a British adventurer, left London for Timbuktu in his flying dune buggy for a fly/drive expedition that makes the Baja 1000 look like a walk-in-the-park.

Cardozo will be driving a home-made vehicle that can transform from a car into an aircraft in minutes. On the highways, the Skycar runs on biofuel-powered motorcycle engine and can accelerate to 60 mph in 4.5sec.

A powerful fan at the rear provides the thrust for take-off at about …

1957 Volkswagen Bug-Peter Servais

After a “career” as a go-cart driver, I realized at the end of the 1989 racing season that I hadn’t the time, economy, nor the energy to continue competing at the level I did. At the same time I had started my studies as an engineer at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The go-cart was to be sold, but at the same time I wasn’t …