By 
Anna Mracek Dietrich
 | 
TED Stage Talk

A plane you can drive

A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a plane that you can drive?

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design
flight
invention
transportation
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