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Harry Kraemer has been collecting flying car memorabilia, scale models, books, articles, etc. since the early 1960s. Harry is a knowledgeable flying car or roadable aircraft historian. Harry has always believed in a design that doesn't need to change configurations, meaning it can be driven on the road and flown in the same configuration. This NASA lifting body is an example of this.

From Wikipedia:

The NASA M2-F1 is a lightweight, unpowered prototype aircraft, developed to flight-test the wingless lifting body concept. Its unusual appearance earned it the nickname "flying bathtub" and was designated the M2-F1, the M referring to "manned", and F referring to "flight" version. In 1962, NASA Dryden management approved a program to build a lightweight, unpowered lifting-body prototype. It featured a plywood shell placed over a tubular steel frame crafted at Dryden. Construction was completed in 1963.

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