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2-2-'24, WBR Live, “Daily Constitution”, “Hillbilly Friday”, (pics on wimkin), I (and a few others) have been waiting about 50 years now for my 'idiot proof' flying car. These people never deliver. The concept is to build a stable flight platform that will glide at a specific speed and decent rate, with a crush zone construction that will allow the passenger(s) to be able to walk away from a engine out landing in a 'common ground' type area. The aircraft should not be able to start / enter poor flight conditions as well. Today, we make some paper, cardboard, balsa, poster-board airplanes? The two pics should be enough to build a flight system for testing and modification. A note of complication removal: the center-line of balance is very far forward. “You can have it in any color, as long as it is red” (view it from the top). Ostensibly, this color for easier sight and discovery in adverse conditions. With the narrowing flight surfaces holding grip on the air at the end of the suspension points at the outer four corners of the wings and tail, the plane will both stay at a consistent angle of attack with controls neutral / fixed and at a setting rate consistent with the air resistance / weight to let the crush zones (wing tips and rear belly -hell, the whole rear end/flight surfaces-), with a air buffer layer just before ground contact. The personnel/engine compartment would separate in a heavy contact, with an option to drop/empty the entire fuel tank for fire on crash (most air fatalities). The entire shape is a lifting body, with air resistance focused at the front (brake on the front tires canard people), and locations that power application will point the craft slightly up. If the EDC air from an engine source can be made reliable in power out conditions (for the mass of the particular application), there may only be -1- moving part on the whole plane (sans valves and fluids). The Anti-Ice can be used for flight surface control.