LMC Marketing has wanted a flying car since the Jetsons and now it looks like it may be just around the corner.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 24, 2011 -- The dream of a Silicon Valley startup is to expand the possibilities of the plane and the car. The men behind the development of the SoloTrek/ Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle have unveiled plans to build the world's first fuel-electric hybrid flying car. Michael Moshier and Robert Bulaga of Trek Aerospace are forming a new company to develop the hybrid Air Car and although there’s always been a murmur of a technological development of this magnitude, LMC Marketing think if anyone can be successful in this feat it is these guys.

Moshier and Bulaga designed the SoloTrek together, a project that saw the first unipersonnal helicopter equipped with “ducted-fan” technology take off. Now, according to Innovation News Daily, they are embarking on a project they hope will once again be funded by a £3 million grant of the DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) with the collaboration of NASA. The engineer/ inventor/ designer/ pilots plan now to use new materials as they develop a “multi-passenger” hybrid flying car.

The founders want to once again use ducted-fan-powered hover technology first demonstrated in SoloTrek, their one-person aircraft. Their first project made a number of successful flight tests from 2001 to 2005, but eventually lost funding. Whether or not a more ambitious project beyond a jetpack-sized contraption can catch the attention of investors remains up in the air. "It is no longer a question of if it can be done," said Bulaga, an aerospace engineer and test pilot. "We have the proven technology, key development partners, and operational experience to be successful with this project." LMC Marketing notes that the only factors delaying the release of a flying car is that technologies and the knowledge necessary to build such a machine have not been available — until now.

The proposed hybrid air car has been suggested for many uses but mainly as a possible solution for emergency transport that needs to dodge traffic gridlocks, as well as search and rescue, police patrols and also for use in “third-world” countries where road infrastructure is not or under developed. LMC Marketing think that there should be no problem gaining funding as the vehicle could potentially save many lives as well as being a fun toy.