![]() McQueen’s bid for office is an extreme long shot-he’s what political professionals call an “unconventional candidate” or, less charitably, a “vanity candidate.” He’s raised zero dollars and faces a ten-way Republican primary, all for the honor of facing a Democrat for this open congressional seat who will benefit from a newly gerrymandered district that Joe Biden would’ve won by 46 percentage points in 2020.īut McQueen has plenty of experience on the campaign trail. At one point in time, they probably thought we wouldn’t have a helicopter. How long that will take will just depend on regulations and money and the transition of all of that. ![]() “Now, will it happen in our future? You and I both know it will. “To actually fly, commute, and land overhead on top of a building in, say, downtown San Antonio . . . that’s something that’s beyond the scope of understanding for most people,” he said. ![]() Skeptics of flying cars lack imagination and technological savvy, he told me. Given his experience, he promises to use his perch in Congress to “work to bring forth-obviously-flying cars.” On his website, he says he has worked for Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and United Technologies. In a recent campaign video, McQueen makes a few truth-stretching claims: he says he’s “been in San Antonio ever since leaving the military back in ninety-four” despite, well, having served as Corpus Christi mayor in 2016 and early 2017 and running for office in Missouri last year. Dan McQueenĪ Navy veteran, McQueen has a background in aviation and technology, with a master’s degree in computer information systems from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in professional aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. In the years since his brief stint in office, he has announced campaigns for other elective positions five times, including a brief flirtation with running for Corpus mayor again.ĭan McQueen’s AeroTae’ Sky-Jump flying Motorcycle. In 2016, he was elected mayor of Corpus Christi, only to resign after serving just 37 days in office (more on that in a minute). First, McQueen has a history of false starts. When you land, you’d shed your wings, like an angel blending in with mere mortals.īut back on terra firma, we have reasons to be skeptical. Who wouldn’t enjoy skipping the I-35 horror show or the Katy Freeway parking lot by soaring over the suckers crawling bumper to bumper, the precious minutes of their lives ticking away as they listen to their six-hundredth true-crime podcast? You’d be blissed out behind the handlebars of a flying Harley with the birds and the wind keeping you company. And honestly, the invention does sound amazing. In a brief bit of press-release doggerel, he invites the public to imagine the possibilities: “Fly a Motorcycle in the Sky, Remove the wings and Ride away, of course there are sceptics, do you recall Tesla, Ford & Wright.” House in Texas’s Thirty-fifth Congressional District, which stretches from San Antonio to Austin, is touting what he’s calling the “AeroTae’ Sky-Jump flying Motorcycle.” The “P.A.A.V.” (personal autonomous aerial vehicle), he says, could be used as “a personal aircraft or sky taxi” in the airways above Texas’s clogged highways. Dan McQueen, a Republican running for the U.S. Or, to be more precise, a flying motorcycle. This may be a first in Texas political history: a candidate claims to have designed and built a flying vehicle.
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