Jetpod Flying Taxi Creator Falls To His Death Testing Prototype
We’ve been all about the air lately, but sometimes we just forget what some do to give us our future areo technology. The inventor of the Jetpod flying taxi, Michael Robert Dacre, died yesterday while testing his latest twin-engine aircraft.
Crashing in Taiping, Dacre died on his fourth run. According to a witness, the jet shot up about 200 meters into the sky before veering to the left and crashing into flames.
I’m gonna say that this, while an incredible tragedy, is going to set back the plans to have the eight-seat flying taxi ready by 2010. [The Star via Engadget]
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1. Why he is so desperate to get his plane airborne?
2. All foreign company invested in Malaysia must give minimum 30% share to malay politician. Mean if you bring in 10 miilion, 3 million of your money not belong to you anymore.
3. Dacre dead may benefit those he joint venture locally. Dead or alive, his 30% already gone.
4. Why he decided to joint venture with Malay which well known to be greedy.
5. His plane may be pricing 100 times more to be sold to Malaysian government. He might enjoy lucrative partial payment if he get his plane successfully airborne.