![]() "British test pilot dies after crashing own prototype 'flying taxi' on first flight." Mail Online. "The Rocket-Car Man Who Helped Put Us On The Moon." Jalopnik. "The beginnings of the modern, Web-Fed Newspaper Press." (Jan, 8, 2012) "9 Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions." The Atlantic. "Printing Yesterday and Today." The University of Texas at Austin. "The Human Tradition in Premodern China." Rowman & Littlefield. "Flying taxi service to offer sky-high commuting." Gizmag. "How Henry Winstanley became a hero in 1698." The Guardian. "10 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions." Dec. After failing to get airborne three times, on the fourth attempt the craft shot vertically into the sky before falling back to Earth and killing the man who had created it - along with his plans for a "flying taxi." 16, 2009, Dacre took an eight-seater Jetpod prototype to a take-off strip north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a test flight. ![]() Unfortunately, Dacre never got to see these planes reach production. The E-400 was also a medical transport vehicle, but the idea was that it would be used for civilian applications and could land on a cleared road near a hospital. The M-300 was a heavier plane that would be used in military applications to move battlefield casualties to nearby medical facilities. ![]() The T-100 was a commuter plane, with ultra-light seats, designed to do as many as 50 trips per day from airports to center cities. to central London in about four minutes and cost approximately 50 GBP.Īvcen had planned to build three different models of the Jetpod. For example, it was predicted that the plane (which had a maximum speed of 350 mph or 563.3 km/h) could make it from Heathrow airport in the U.K. With such a craft, Dacre contended, runways could be built inside urban areas, making transport from airports to city centers much quicker, thereby eliminating congested highways. The Jetpod looked like a small airplane, ran quietly and was designed to need only 125 meters (410.1 feet) to take off and 300 meters (984.3 feet) to land, a concept he called VQSTOL (very quiet short take-off and landing). It is with Avcen that he developed a craft he called the Jetpod. Perhaps in an example of "instant Karma," Li Si was himself subjected to the cruelties of his own invention in 208 B.C., when he was convicted of treason and executed via The Five Pains. These were followed by castration and finally death by being cut in half. In this method of torture and execution, a criminal would have first his nose cut off, then a hand and a foot. Li Si was well-liked by the king, as evidenced by his appointment to chancellor sometime between 219 and 213 B.C., which made him one of the two highest-ranking subjects in the empire.Īlthough the burning of books is the act Li Si is most remembered for by Chinese scholars, it's another of his ideas that has captured the popular imagination: his invention of The Five Pains. He coaxed the king into accepting many dubious policies of his, such as bribing enemies who could be bought and assassinating those who couldn't tricking neighboring states into subjugation through outright lies and collecting and burning all books except those regarding medicine, divination and agriculture. Li Si was a smooth-talking political operative who found favor with Zheng, the King of Qin and its first emperor.
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