“Intriguing news today on the flying-car front – and indeed many other fronts. A Californian space-rocket company says it has received US government funding to develop a miraculous engine that would offer as much power-for-weight as a gas turbine, but would be much cheaper and simpler to make and maintain.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/transformer_tx_engine_deal/