Ford Pinto + Cessna Skymaster - photos

[Jon]

The AVE Mizar, made from a Ford Pinto and a Cessna Skymaster.





Previously:

Landing a Cessna on a tanker and taking off - GIF
Cessna clips car while landing - GIF
bird strike through windshield of Cessna 210

[Clockguy]

The most obvious question in my mind is how do the wings fold? I can only see one solution from the limited views of the top of the roof area, they could fold in thirds so that they fit just so on top of the roof??

So, if you are pulled over by the law, do you show them your driver's license or your pilot's license, or does it depend on whether you were airborne or not when he clocked you??

[ranald]

It's strictly for 007 or a fly drive holiday. Should that be fly ride as it is a pinto.

[drivermark]

The most obvious question to me would be. Why waste a perfectly good airplane by attaching it to a Ford Pinchloaf oops I mean Pinto

[Frank S]

I'm wondering if he has to have multi engine rating on his docket one in the pinto and one in the Cessna LOL
and what about instruments? I imagine the dash of the Pinto would be quite cluttered

[ranald]

I'm wondering if he has to have multi engine rating on his docket one in the pinto and one in the Cessna LOL
and what about instruments? I imagine the dash of the Pinto would be quite cluttered

The owner probably borrowed the dash of the Corvette in a different post: without the dash the pinto would be cluttered.

[Scotsman Hosie]

I'd think there's enough steel, in that Pinto, to weigh many times what the original aluminum airframe and engine weighed.

[tonyfoale]

Guessing at the weight of the car, the wing looks way too far back. Maybe the car has no engine or maybe someone has Photoshop?

[Frank S]

Guessing at the weight of the car, the wing looks way too far back. Maybe the car has no engine or maybe someone has Photoshop?

Photoshop? good call

[Jon]

Looks like you guys are correct about the weight problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Mizar

And here's the NTSB report from what I believe is the maiden and only flight: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.a...id=84720&key=0

Some of those failures look to be tied to the problem of excessive weight. Most aircraft usually need to do three things: takeoff, fly, and land. It looks like it could do one of these, maybe two.