The general aspiration for something like a flying car, whether it be an autogyro or airplane flyable from a small, suburban field to a landing strip on top of a skyscraper has been around in the popular imagination since the 20’s. When, though, did it really leap from the pages of Popular Mechanics/Modern Mechanix to become an expectation of the general puplic?

When did people, by and large, realize that this just wasn’t going to happen? The 70’s? The 80’s?