10 Amazing Transport Inventions (1/10)
 

Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions; some of them could have revolutionised our modern existence. Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.

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  • This is such an amazing invention! Are you a futurist? Do you consider good inventions to be gateways through which our lives could be made better? Here's a future forecast of innovations that can change the planet, courtesy of The Futurist magazine. While none of really, this ought to be set in stone, the possibility to save money, time and ultimately life makes them something to be prized. You can get an installment loan for the new invention you want.

    james lee 25th May 2013
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The Flying Platform
A fabulous way for picking up friends and nipping in to town. The flying platform was created in 1955 by the US Navy. It used a direct lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans (controlled by the pilot shifting his body weight around).

Sadly development ceased because they were considered too impractical as combat vehicles due to their small size, limited speed and they barely flew out of the ground cushion effect. How different life could have been...

Film: Hovering UFO invention