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| Lou Ann Hammond appearances on the John Batchelor show, WABC-AM radio, New York City |
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date: August 25, 2006
length: ~8:00 minutes |
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| John Batchelor and Lou Ann Hammond talk to Dr. Carl Dietrich CEO of Terrafugia about their Transition road-able aircraft |
| The Transition will be able to land at the airport, fold up its wings, and drive on the road. |
| The Transition, says Dietrich, will get 30mpg (air), 40mpg (hwy), 30mpg (city) and costs only $148,000 USD. |
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| My local airport is 5 miles away, the international one is 40 miles away. I would save that gas, the $10 a day for parking, the rental car fee at the other end and the $2 for a bottle of water. The other day I flew from Sacramento to Santa Barbara, CA on United airlines. The flight was supposed to leave at 7:30 am and arrive at 1:30. I left my home at 5:30 am and arrived at Santa Barbara airport around 4pm, 10 1/2 hours later.
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According to mapquest it would have taken me 7 hours to drive there. According to the FAA’s Direct User Access Terminal (DUAT) service for pilots the Terrafugia Transition would have taken 2 hours 40 minutes to fly there, figuring in the winds of the day.
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