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Violet the pilot
Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble.
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Scifi Eye: The everlasting appeal of the flying car
The chaos of a sky buzzing with countless air cars offers science fiction writers plenty of scope for more tales of outlaws and fugitives Why then, does the dream endure? Inventors and scifi writers care about the flying car precisely because of its potential to free us from the grip of regulation; from the watchful eyes of a speed camera, and from the cattle-truck conditions of check-in and economy class. In this new world the average family can even traverse oceans with ease, as a new generation of service stations bloom at sea, catering to the air car diver's fuel, food and entertainment needs: converted tankers make air car parks of their decks and restaurants of their holds. A story could see a band of 'good old boys' wage a new Prohibition-style border war, using souped-up flying cars to smuggle contraband over the Great Wall of Trump One enterprising captain...
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