Eponymously Yours, W. Skeffington Higgins

Collected wisdom of an aircar buff

By day, Bill Higgins is an engineering physicist at Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia; by night, he is a student of
mankind's continued quest to build a car that flies like George Jetson's
did. Higgins recently gave a slide presentation at Aurora's SciTech
museum in which he tried to explain why, in this third millennium A.D.,
we still have to make do with cars with wheels on them.

Here are a few of Higgins' pearls of wisdom.

"Turning your airplane into a car is only one approach to getting
around."

"You've got to be careful not to fall off. Of course, that's true for
any aircraft."
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