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From left to right, MIT PhD seekers Carl Dietrich, Anna Mracek, and Samuel Schweighart show models they designed for a real-life flying car that could be marketed to consumers. Someday, what was once the realm of sci-fi television shows, movies and cartoons could be real life (what Mass Highway thinks about it, we just don't know). Take a look at some of the gravity-defying vehicles that have appeared in movies and television over the years.
 

Flying cars on film
From left to right, MIT PhD seekers Carl Dietrich, Anna Mracek, and Samuel Schweighart show models they designed for a real-life flying car that could be marketed to consumers. Someday, what was once the realm of sci-fi television shows, movies and cartoons could be real life (what Mass Highway thinks about it, we just don't know). Take a look at some of the gravity-defying vehicles that have appeared in movies and television over the years.
(Globe staff photo/Essdras Suarez)
 
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