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emailWednesday, September 26, 2012
Flying Cars... Really!
Our guest this week is Carl Dietrich, who will lead a
discussion about the "why?" and "how?" of flying cars—really!
Carl will tell the story of Terrafugia and discuss the vision for a
practical shift toward a world with fewer traffic headaches and
security lines -- a world where you keep your personal
plug-in-hybrid-electric flying car in your garage and use it
instead of a normal car. He will bring this lofty subject
"down to earth" with a discussion of the practical challenges from
a technical, regulatory, and business planning perspective.
Terrafugia was recently featured in the Boston Globe Magazine
http://articles.boston.com/2012-08-19/magazine/33244187_1_aerocar-carl-dietrich-bad-weather.
Carl received his SB, SM, and Ph.D. from the Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. In 2000 Carl was
formally recognized by the Aero/Astro Department as one of sixteen
exceptional graduates under the age of 35. In 2006 he was the
winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for
Invention. He was the chief architect and one of the
principle authors of Terrafugia's business plan, and he was awarded
the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" in 2009. Carl has
recently been nominated for Aviation Week and Space Technology
magazine's "40 under 40" award for 2012. He has been a private
pilot since the age of seventeen, and is the chief visionary behind
Terrafugia.
Suggested reading:
1) Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel by James
Fallows
2) A Drive in the Clouds, The Story of the Aerocar by
Jake Schultz
- Location:Taubman 401
- Date:Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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Time:4:30 PM
