Dutch flying car proves the combination always makes for compromises

The dream of mixing the chocolate of flying into the peanut butter of everyday driving has enticed inventors for decades, yet no flying car or "roadable aircraft" combination has ever found wide acceptance, let alone mastered the severe technical hurdles. That's not stopped a pair of flying Dutchmen who claimed to have solved the problem of building a true flying car -- and proven it by putting their creation in the air.