Convair Model 118

The Convair Model 118 ConvAirCar, also called the Hall Flying Automobile, was a post-war American prototype flying car that Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, later Convair, hoped to sell to ordinary motorists. Designer Theodore Hall built on his earlier Model 116 with a plastic-bodied four-seat car driven by a small 25 horsepower Crosley engine, to which a wing and tail unit with a 190 horsepower Lycoming engine could be fitted for flight. Convair planned a production run of 160,000 at a projected price of 1,500 dollars and expected the machines to be rented at airports. Two prototypes were built. The first was wrecked in November 1947 on a demonstration flight when it ran out of fuel, and the second flew in January 1948, but with enthusiasm gone Convair cancelled the programme and the rights reverted to Hall.